1. MISSION:
To develop programmes oriented toward preventing irregular migration and to help strengthen policies and strategies ensuring full coordination of the repatriation of Salvadoran nationals, promoting social, productive, and education programmes to enable them to reincorporate into our society and thus, to help create better conditions for citizen security and economic growth.
2. VISION:
To be a leading unit within the institution, at a national and international level, developing procedures and programmes to facilitate the expedited, orderly, and safe repatriation of Salvadoran nationals and ensure their reintegration into society .

• The United States defines an undocumented migrant as every person born outside the United States that is not a legal resident in the country, either having entered in an illegal manner or having stayed for a period that is longer than the period established in the visa.
• El Salvador appears as the second source of migrants to the United States: From 430,000 in 2000 to
530,000 in 2009 – a 25% increase and an annual average of 10,000 persons in one decade.
• However, Salvadoran migrants account for only 5% of the irregular population in the United States.
• The list of the 10 primary countries of origin of migrants to the United States includes Guatemala as the third with 290,000 in 2000 and 480,000 in 2009; Honduras, with 160,000 in 2000 and 320,000 in
2009, and the Philippines with 200,000 in 2000 and 270,000 in 2009.
• By region, the total number of migrants from Mexico, Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean was 8.5 million in 2009, followed by 980,000 from Asia and 74,000 from South America, according to
“Diario de Hoy” Newspaper – 2010.
• California continues to be the favourite state of destination of migrants: 2.6 million migrants live there, accounting for 24% of the total number. However, a reduction in the percentage of migrants living in California has been observed compared to 2000, with a percentage of 30%.

• Unemployment
• Lack of opportunities
• Poverty and migration
• Migration from rural to urban areas as a result of lack of agricultural productivity
• Family disintegration
• Domestic violence, causing many women to escape from their aggressor, together with their children
• Lack of living alternatives, especially for young persons
• Family reunification
• The armed conflict forced many persons in productive age to escape from the effects of the conflict
• Natural disasters (earthquakes)
• Underpaid employment and deplorable working conditions

• Risks are different for female migrants than for male migrants.
• Disintegration of family bonds.
• Abuse of authority, physical mistreatment, sexual abuse, abduction, extortion, humiliations, assault by migrant smugglers and traffickers and from drug cartels.
• “While they seek employment to provide for their families, they suffer abuse and, in many cases, even death”.
• Boys, girls, adolescents, young adults, and women are victims of the crime of trafficking, under the modes of: organ trafficking, illegal adoption, slavery, forced labour, commercial sexual exploitation, illegal marriage, etc.
• Acquiring debts with migrant smugglers named “Coyotes”, loss of property, money, immoveable goods, and others.

FACING THE RETURN TO THE COUNTRY WHERE THEY WERE BORN
• Difficulty with the Spanish language, especially those persons who migrated at a very young age.
• Weak or inexistent family bonds.
• Depending on their age, the lack of possibilities to continue studying or begin studying.
• Limited possibilities for incorporating into the labour market, since their experiences are not congruent with the needs and realities in the country.
• Difficulty to obtain identity documents, which are required for every procedure.
• In some cases, they are rejected or cast out by their families, and this motivates them to migrate again.
• Lack of knowledge of their own country – in terms of geography, institutional bureaucracy.
• Lack of possibilities to adjust due to high cost of living, salaries that are not appropriate for the work performed
(compared to the US).
• Stigmatized or labelled as deported persons and a sub-group of society, some have tattoos bot do not belong to gangs.
• Some return without legs or arms, are disabled and become a burden to their families.

A project to modernize the Repatriation Unit, currently known as the
Directorate for Assistance to Migrants.
Before
After

Improving assistance to persons returning from Mexico
Before
After

Assistance to persons returning from the US has been improved. Logistical support is now provided to them: Telephone calls to reach their families, transportation to terminals, one night accommodation, etc.

Awareness-raising processes on irregular migration for persons collaborating with the
Directorate of Assistance to Migrants.
Addressing the topic with a human rights approach.

This person received new clothes. His former clothes were stained since he was arrested while he was at work.

A wheelchair was donated to a migrant who was repatriated on May 22, 2011 with a diagnosis of amputation of the left foot due to accident.
On May 3, 2011 a girl was received, who voluntarily returned from the US. She survived a fire where her mother and a sister died on December 30, 2010.
Reception actions were coordinated with representatives from ISNA, MIRE, and members from the girl’s family.

On September 3, 2011 another man, was received. The Ministry of Public Health assessed Mr Pineda. Diagnosis:
Schizophrenia and mental disability.
On August 22, 2011 a man was received. Actions were coordinated with the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, AIES.
Diagnosis: schizophrenia. He was admitted to the National Psychiatric
Hospital “Doctor José Manuel Molina
Martínez”.

OVERVIEW OF REPATRIATION BY LAND, 2011
MONTH
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
TOTAL
Nº OF BUSES
16
25
29
32
35
25
23
23
25
22
26
15
296
537
549
572
519
321
7071
MEN
435
601
789
738
806
668
536
WOMEN
53
77
105
102
128
69
127
140
118
103
121
59
1202
40
53
30
61
28
465
43
67
32
29
BOYS
12
36
34
19
16
8
21
11
209
26
31
25
10
GIRLS
7
16
19
736
736
713
722
419
8947
TOTAL
507
730
947
909
1032
794
702

GENDER
MONTH
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPT.
OCTOBER
NOV.
DECEMBER
SUB-TOTAL
TOTAL
MALE
1103
1189
1326
1039
1555
1537
1237
1132
1211
1249
1366
1159
FEMALE
96
107
141
108
139
169
151
426
213
75
76
105
15103
16909
1806
OVERVIEW OF REPATRIATIONS BY AIR, 2011
AGE TYPE OF FLIGHT
Total
1199
1296
1467
1147
1694
1706
1388
1558
1424
1324
1442
1264
ADULTS CHILDREN
1195 4
1290 6
1460
1141
1673
1687
1365
7
6
21
19
23
1542
1417
1315
1433
16
7
9
9
1251 13
16769
16909
140
Total
1199
1296
1467
1147
1694
1706
1388
1558
1424
1324
1442
1264
COMMERCIAL FEDERAL
105 1094
31 1265
34
36
40
34
40
1433
1111
1654
1672
1348
35
32
28
32
1523
1392
1296
1410
47 1217
494
16909
16415
Total
1199
1296
1467
1147
1694
1706
1388
1558
1424
1324
1442
1264
BACKGROUND
No criminal
Record
522
617
834
606
822
960
744
915
791
722
723
873
Criminal
Record
677
679
633
541
872
746
644
643
633
602
719
391
9129
16909
7780
Total
1199
1296
1467
1147
1694
1706
1388
1558
1424
1324
1442
1264

•To continue with the process of adapting and fitting out the Directorate for
Assistance to Migrants to receive repatriated persons from the United
States and provide comprehensive assistance to populations returning by land and by air.
•To decentralize services for repatriated populations.
•To register repatriated populations in the Integrated Immigration System with the aim of generating indicators for decision-making.
•To strengthen cooperation between various State institutions involved in the topic of migration: RREE, ISNA, PNC, FGR, etc.
•To participate, as appropriate, in the councils that have been established under the Special Law on Migrants and their Families and the National
Council Against Trafficking in Persons.