Deportations to Nicaragua

Record number of Nicaraguans deported

The administration of President Donald Trump deported more Nicaraguan migrants during the first nine months of 2025 than all of 2024 and 2023 combined, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday.

Confidencial, citing data shared by an unnamed U.S. State Department spokesperson, said the United States deported 6,095 Nicaraguans between January and September.

The outlet, also citing statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), detailed Nicaragua has already received 52 percent more deportees this year than the 3,996 deported during 2024 and three times more than the 2,020 deported during 2023.

Ortega has only publicly referred to the deportation of Nicaraguans under President Trump’s second term on four occasions, the first of which took place on late April, when the communist dictator used a regime event commemorating the death of Sandinista commander Tomás Borge to lash out at Trump, accusing him of committing “crimes against humanity” by deporting illegal migrants.

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Nicaragua is a hub for arms trafficking, supplying illegal military-grade weapons to regional criminal groups.

The UN reports in detail, a range of crimes, including murder, imprisonment, torture (including sexual violence and electric shocks), forced deportation/exile, enforced disappearances, and persecution on political grounds but Ortega says deporting his fellow country menhere illegally is a "crime against humanity." What a joke.