Mexican authorities conducted several operations in Tijuana recording the presence of migrants in an irregular situation.

The Interior Ministry’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced that, together with the State Security and Research Guard, 79 people were rescued from rooms in two hotels and a motel in the city.

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15 people were detected in the first building, an equal number in the second and 49 in the third. Among these groups were 35 migrants from Mauritania; 16 from Afghanistan; nine from Ecuador who together formed two family nuclei; seven from Colombia; five from Nicaragua; four from Eritrea; two from Congo and one from Angola.

In the case of Ecuadorians, they remained under the guardianship of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (SDIF), while the remaining group of adults went through an administrative process to determine their legal situation in Mexico.

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In recent years, Mexico has seen an increase in the migration of Ecuadorian citizens to the United States. Several groups of compatriots traveling in inhumane conditions have been identified in several operations.

Therefore, in 2021, it was decided to reactivate visa requirements for Ecuadorian citizens planning to travel to Mexico, in order to reduce the number of people using it as a transit country.