President of Mexico confirms the kidnapping of 31 migrants on the border with the United States.

An armed group kidnapped at least 31 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, while they were traveling last Saturday in a truck in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering Mexico. USA, As confirmed this Tuesday by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“It is known that it is a truck with 30 or 31 migrants who were unloaded, they left five, they took the other migrants, but the search is already being carried out from the first moments“explained the president in statements to the media after finishing his morning conference in the southern state of Tabasco.

López Obrador affirmed that the Secretariat of Public and Citizen Security of the federal government is investigating the case, but emphasized that it is still unknown which group carried out the kidnapping and for what reason.

The Mexican president referred to reports in the national press that indicate that the kidnapping of the foreigners occurred on Saturday on the Reynosa-Matamoros highway, but the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, did not confirm the kidnapping until Monday.

According to reports, the intercepted migrants are mostly Venezuelans who would have left the northern city of Monterrey to Matamoros, on the border with Brownsville (Texas), to attend their humanitarian asylum appointment in the United States.

Meanwhile, the head of the Executive Secretariat of Public Security in Tamaulipas, Jorge Cuéllar, explained in an interview with ‘Foro TV’ that after the kidnapping, the bus was escorted to the Matamoros headquarters by military personnel, the National Guard and the State Guard to carry out the corresponding investigations.

Likewise, the Tamaulipas Security spokesperson reported on their social networks that on Monday night they found five of the 31 kidnapped migrants, who were traveling in a vehicle on the Monterrey-Matamoros highway with two of the people who had intercepted them on the bus. , who then fled.

“Support was requested from the National Migration Institute, transferring people to immigration offices. Migration”, accurate.

The event occurs after historic numbers were recorded in December of people seeking to enter the United States at the border with Mexico, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed last month the arrival of more than 2.2 million of migrants from January to November.