“Walk, you are 10 minutes from the United States”: Two migrants are rescued in a desert area after being abandoned for 30 hours by the coyotero who promised to help them cross the border

“Walk, it takes about 10 minutes and you are in the United States.” The promise and deal with two migrants ended in a lie.

A woman and a man were found dehydrated under some large rocks in a desert area of ​​La Rumorosa, in Baja California, Mexico.

The two migrants were left to fend for themselves by a coyotero. They spent 30 hours in that deserted place, battered by the sun, high temperatures and exposed to the dangers typical of a space with these characteristics.

When they saw that they had been mocked by the so-called “guide”, they asked for help, Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said.

In a press release, the entity indicated that they had located the man, 31 years old; and the woman, 43. Both are Mexican.

They identify 178 migrants who traveled on a bus in Mexico, nine of whom were Ecuadorians

Deployed to rescue the pair of migrants

The two migrants called 9-1-1 and were treated at the Baja California State Command, Control, Communications and Computing Center (C-4). There they asked for help.

They were sincere. The situation justified this: they said they were lost in the mountainous area.

The rescue operation was prepared and a search continued for several hours, the National Migration Institute said on Sunday, September 10.

Finally, they found them under a rock, where they tried to avoid the direct rays of the sun.

Rescuers and personnel trained in first aid assessed them and responded to their greatest need, providing them with water and serum.

For example, this woman gave birth on the roof of a train that took her from Mexico to the border with the United States

How the coyotero deceived the migrants

The same person who offered to help them cross the border into the United States removed them from the car they were traveling in on the morning of Thursday, September 7. It was 8 a.m. and they were at kilometer 56, the victims told the INM.

Those affected said that “he only told them that they had to walk about 10 minutes along the route he indicated and that they would be on US territory.” It was a farce.

Already on Friday the 8th, the woman felt bad and then they decided to ask for help. The INM reported that because the two rescued persons requested it, they were left at a hotel in Tecate, Baja California.

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Number of migrants rescued in six days

On Sunday, September 10, the INM reported – according to the EFE agency – that security officers found at least 603 migrants, including 72 minors, from countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas, at various events in just six days. Guard (GN) and the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state of Sonora.

These people were located “during searches for passenger buses and freight vehicles.”

The 603 migrants, without documents, came from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, EcuadorGuatemala, Guinea, Honduras, India, Mauritania, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Haiti, Congo, Ghana, Mali and Venezuela.

The INM is pushing its campaign through social networks, from where it is trying to raise awareness with messages like these: “The lives of migrants are not a commodity, stop profiting from their dreams” and “Don’t fall into the trap of unscrupulous people .’ “They’re just trying to scam you.”

(JO)