{"id":185980,"date":"2026-03-30T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/rosario-murillo-orders-extreme-surveillance-of-nicaraguans-deported-from-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:01:58","slug":"rosario-murillo-orders-extreme-surveillance-of-nicaraguans-deported-from-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/rosario-murillo-orders-extreme-surveillance-of-nicaraguans-deported-from-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosario Murillo Orders \u201cExtreme Surveillance\u201d of Nicaraguans Deported From the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The work of investigating deportees has been intense,” says R\u00f3ger, a<\/em> public official at the Civil Registry. He details that the requests are constant, at least every two weeks. \u201cWe\u2019re told to find out whether they are actually Nicaraguan, whether they are registered, and to gather all available information about these individuals,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n

For R\u00f3ger<\/em>, this is part of Rosario Murillo’s paranoia, which has grown since 2025 and \u201cmultiplied\u201d after the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in the early hours of January 3, 2026. \u201cSurveillance and investigations into who the deportees are has been an order from Rosario Murillo since last year, but it has intensified in recent months,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n\n

Verifying names, place of birth and registration, identifying parents, marital status, and whether they have children are all part of the details R\u00f3ger<\/em> must provide \u201cas quickly as possible\u201d regarding the lists of deportees he regularly receives. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe fear is that they may be sending infiltrators, or people trained by the United States to organize some form of protest,\u201d R\u00f3ger<\/em> suggests. That\u2019s at least the impression he says he\u2019s gotten during the meetings where he receives instructions. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s information they request and are desperate to obtain, because there is also a broader surveillance process targeting these individuals,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n\n

Surveillance from the moment they arrive at the airport<\/h2>\n\n

Claudia<\/em>, an official at the Social Security Institute (INSS), reveals that many deportees are taken to their homes in special enclosed buses equipped with cameras and audio. \u201cThese buses belong to the INSS. They\u2019re monitored from the moment they arrive, and they\u2019re also interrogated at the airport,\u201d she explains. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe idea of taking them all the way to their homes is to identify where they live, so it\u2019s easier to keep them under surveillance afterward,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n

According to Claudia,<\/em> a driver from that institution was sanctioned because they realized that he “talked too much” during one of the transfers of deportees to their homes. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThey do this, and describe it to us in some way, to intimidate us as well,\u201d she notes. <\/p>\n\n

As part of the investigation ordered by Murillo, the INSS is also asked to provide information on where these individuals have worked, how many weeks they contributed to the system, and what their income was when they lived in Nicaragua before leaving for the United States. <\/p>\n\n

Nearly 10,000 deported<\/h2>\n\n

The Donald Trump administration deported 7431 Nicaraguans in 2025,<\/a> according to official U.S. data compiled by CONFIDENCIAL. Migrants arrived in Managua on 56 flights. That number exceeded the total of 50 flights recorded over the previous two years combined: 2023 and 2024. <\/p>\n\n

The quiet deportation flights continue to arrive in Managua. At least ten flights were reported in January 2026. <\/p>\n\n

Between January and the first week of March 2026, the United States deported 2,486 Nicaraguan migrants who were undocumented, according to information provided by a U.S. official to 100% Noticias.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

The increase in flights corresponds to the anti-immigration policies promoted by Donald Trump, who, in his second term beginning January 20, 2025, pledged to deport one million undocumented migrants within his first 365 days in office. However, the deportation policy has continued into his second year. <\/p>\n\n

What does Nicaragua say about the deportees? <\/h2>\n\n

The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has remained silent about the deportation flights. Despite the crisis facing migrants in the United States, Ortega has only addressed the issue on four occasions. <\/p>\n\n