Mexico finds 92 migrants crowded into a trailer in the north of the country, including a Peruvian

Immigration agents mexicans They intercepted this Saturday 92 migrants, including 19 minors, who were traveling crowded in a trailer in Coahuila, a state in the north of the country bordering Texas.

The National Migration Institute (INM) and the Coahuila police discovered the migrants during a routine check on the Saltillo-Torreón federal highway, near the Saltillo Criminal Justice Center.

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Among the migrants were 31 people from Honduras, 26 from El Salvador, 17 from Cuba, 12 from Nicaragua, three from Guatemala, and one from Ecuador, another from Venezuela and one from Venezuela. Peruas detailed by the INM in a statement.

“In accordance with and safeguarding their rights, the adults were taken to the INM offices to begin the immigration process that defines their legal status in Mexico, while the minors remained under the guardianship of the System for the Integral Development of the Family. (DIF)”, he asserted.

In addition, the government agency reported the arrest of the driver and the seizure of the vehicle, which were made available to the state police and the Public Ministry of the Federation.

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— INM (@INAMI_mx) April 24, 2022

The operation occurs as pressure grows from Texas towards Coahuila and other Mexican border states after US President Joe Biden announced the elimination of Title 42, a rule of the Donald Trump Administration to immediately deport migrants due to the pandemic. .

The governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, hindered trade with Mexico two weeks ago by imposing additional truck inspections at the border, a measure he revoked in exchange for Coahuila, Nuevo León, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas reinforcing immigration checkpoints.

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the “electoral interests” and “chicanadas” (traps) of Abbott, who threatened to reimpose inspections if the Mexican president does not stop irregular migration.

The region is experiencing a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30.

Hours before this operation in Coahuila, the INM announced the discovery of 330 migrants and the capture of 19 suspected human traffickers on the Puebla-Orizaba highway, in the center of the country.

Source: Elcomercio

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