Immigration Enforcement

A 28-year-old Honduran woman was detained at the airport in La Lima while attempting to board a flight to the United States with a fraudulent US visa, which airline and immigration staff discovered during boarding procedures.

Three sisters aged 4, 13, and 16 left Alabama after eight years to rejoin their mother, Iris Flores, in Honduras; Flores had been arrested in June on an alleged identity-fraud charge and subsequently chose voluntary deportation.

Honduras's immigration authority reported 24,837 Chinese citizens entered the country irregularly from 2014 to present, with a sharp spike of 12,184 in 2023 following the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, prompting congressional oversight.

Authorities have lost track of 13 Chinese nationals who entered Honduras between 2022 and 2025, prompting concern over immigration oversight and the whereabouts of the migrants.

Honduras's Congress will create a multiparty special commission to investigate the entry and whereabouts of roughly 15,000 Chinese nationals who entered the country between 2022 and 2025, amid gaps in migration records.

A federal judge in Michigan sentenced Honduran national Wilmer Rodríguez, 39, to nearly four years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation, following a prior state conviction for first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, and firearms offenses.