Guatemala takes back 106 unaccompanied children and teen migrants

Guatemalan unaccompanied minors walk on the tarmac after arriving on a deportation flight from Mexico, at the Guatemalan Air Force (FAG) headquarters in La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City, Guatemala March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sandra Sebastian

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - More than 100 children and teen migrants from Guatemala were flown home on Wednesday after being found in a truck trailer in Mexico headed to the U.S., one of the largest recent returns of unaccompanied minors back to the Central American country.

The flight to Guatemala City brought back 106 youths ages 12 to 17 who had been traveling without family, Guatemala's migration institute said this week.