The Trump administration deported more Nicaraguans in the first nine months of 2025 than during all of 2023 and 2024 combined, according to data cited by Confidencial and reportedly confirmed by a U.S. State Department spokesperson.
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President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies have sharply increased the pace of deportations to Nicaragua, with Confidencial reporting that 6,095 Nicaraguan nationals were deported from the United States between January and September 2025. That figure exceeds the total number of deportations for both previous years combined—6,016 in 2023 and 2024—underscoring a major escalation in removal operations under Trump’s renewed border agenda.
According to statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and independent flight data, Nicaragua has already received 52 percent more deportees than in 2024 and triple the number from 2023. Deportation flights have also surged: as of September 30, U.S. authorities had conducted 54 charter flights to Nicaragua, the highest annual total in five years. By comparison, only 26 such flights occurred in 2024 and 24 in 2023.
Despite the scale of the operation, Nicaragua’s authoritarian government—led by President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo—has released little public information about the arrivals. The regime does not list deportation flights in official airport records and has reportedly used private airfield ramps to conceal them from public view, according to Confidencial.
Ortega has publicly addressed the deportations only four times during Trump’s current term. In April, during a regime event honoring late Sandinista commander Tomás Borge, he denounced Trump’s actions as “crimes against humanity.” However, by late September, Ortega appeared to shift tone, claiming he welcomes deported Nicaraguans “with open arms.”
State-controlled media reported that arriving deportees are received by personnel from Nicaragua’s Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Health, who conduct medical exams, provide meals, and transport returnees to their home communities—even in remote regions such as Waspam or Quilalí in the country’s northern Caribbean zone.
Reports published in March indicated that, while Ortega’s government agreed to accept deported citizens, it intentionally omitted the flights from public schedules to avoid scrutiny. Flights carrying deportees reportedly land on isolated ramps used for private aviation, minimizing contact with regular airport travelers.
The data point to an aggressive acceleration of deportations to Nicaragua as Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus expands across Central America, signaling a broader shift toward direct bilateral removals even with hostile or non-cooperative regimes.
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