Mexico City, Mexico - As several Mexican politicians continue to criticize the United States for deporting thousands of people each year, Mexico’s deportations of Central Americans increased by 53.3 percent in 2014, according to Guatemalan officials.

This year, 104,253 Central Americans were deported from Mexico. The two previous years, 77,876 and 77,395 Central Americans were deported in 2012 and 2013 respectively, according to Guatemalan officials.

In 2014, Hondurans were the largest group of deportees at 42,697.

Honduras is followed by Guatemala, which shares a border with Mexico. A total of 40,311 Guatemalans were deported, 20,269 Salvadorans, and 976 Nicaraguans.

However, deportations are not the only risk that the almost 140,000 foreigners, mostly Central Americans, trying to cross Mexico to reach the United States face. Many immigrants are robbed, kidnapped, and killed by criminal organizations, while some also frequently are extorted by local authorities.

The number of deportations comes at a time when the US federal government continues increasing the deportations of Mexicans and Central Americans, and when authorities of some of border states like Texas and Arizona are strengthening the local laws to prevent immigrants from entering the country.

In 2014, US authorities deported more than 200,000 Mexicans.