These are migrants of different nationalities with an irregular stay in Mexico.
The National Migration Institute (INM) of the The Mexican government intercepted more than 3,000 migrants in just a period of 48 hours, including 334 undocumented immigrants crammed into a trailer in the municipality of Alvarado, Veracruz, in the southeast.
“In the last 48 hours, the National Institute of Migration of the Ministry of the Interior has carried out massive rescues that have made it possible to locate and assist more than 3,000 migrants of different nationalities with irregular stay,” the agency reported this Sunday in a bulletin.
The INM also highlighted the dissolution of “a contingent of 319 foreign people in a caravan” who left Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, headed for the United States.
Likewise, the immigration authorities intercepted 65 migrants crowded into the dry box of a trailer on highway 57 Matehuala-Monterrey, in the northeast of the country.
While, similarly, they located 54 undocumented immigrants on a bus in Acayucan, Veracruz, in the southeast of the country.
Nearby, in La Venta, Tabasco, three different operations found 24 migrants who were in trailers.
The organization also recalled that discovered this Saturday 28 Nicaraguans in a pirate ambulance that left Oaxaca, a state in the south of the country, where he intended to belong to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
“And at the Caitf Huixtla checkpoint, Chiapas, 15 migrants who were traveling hidden in the cabin of a trailer and in a van with tinted windows were identified in two separate actions,” he added.
These types of transfers do not stop despite the fact that more than a month and a half have passed since the accident of a trailer in Chiapas in which 56 migrants died and nearly 100 were injured.
More than 1.7 million undocumented in 2021
The facts reflect the record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented people on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30.
Mexico intercepted more than 252,000 undocumented people from January to November and deported more than 100,000 in the same period, figures not seen in nearly 15 years, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Mexican authorities have received criticism for the deployment of more than 20,000 elements of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern borders to contain migrants.
“These tasks are carried out on all highway routes in the country, with the coordinated support of other instances of the Government of Mexico, in order to maintain safe, orderly and regular migration, with strict adherence to human rights,” he said this Sunday. the INM. (I)
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