More than 300 migrants were detained after dissolving two caravans in Mexico

Mexican authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM) and of the National Guard disintegrated this Friday two caravans of migrants seeking to reach San Pedro Tapanatepec, in the state of oaxacawhich left more than 300 insured foreigners and several injured immigration agents.

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The federal forces carried out the first seizure about 2 kilometers from the customs of Cerro Gordo in Huixtlanear the border of Mexico with Guatemalawhere some chose to turn themselves in voluntarily and there were a total of 120 detainees.

Other migrants threw stones and attacked two agents.

Later, a second operation by the INM and of the National Guardin the park pijijiapana town that is halfway across the border of the state of Chiapas with Guatemala and the border with Oaxacaended with 180 insured migrants.

At this point, the migrants confronted the elements of the INM and destroyed a vehicle, leaving three officers injured.

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These migrant caravans entered through the suchiate riverwhich divides Mexico and Guatemalaand they reached Tapachula to assemble groups of walkers heading to USA.

The despair of migrants from Venezuela It has risen after the announcement a month ago by the United States to immediately deport Venezuelans who arrive by land due to the expansion of Title 42.

However, in recent days the confrontation of Venezuelan, Colombian, Haitian, Peruvian and African migrants with the authorities has escalated.

Only in the last two months, 15 agents of the INM injured, most of them crushed by stones or sticks.

The region is experiencing a record migratory flow towards USA, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP, in English) detained an unprecedented number of more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2022, a figure that includes substantial increases in the arrests of Cubans and Venezuelans.

Source: EFE

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