MEXICO CITY, April 6 (EFE) – Mexican authorities have found 70 migrants hiding in a water well and hotel engine room in the southern city of Oaxaca, the capital of the state of the same name, National Migration reported Wednesday. Institute (INM).
In a statement, the Interior Ministry-affiliated INM said in an immigration review that INM agents “found dozens of suitcases and backpacks in various hotel rooms but without the presence of the owners.”
Subsequently, migration agents conducted a more extensive and detailed review of the entire property.
A few minutes later they heard a whisper that caused 27 men and 25 women from Cuba; 12 men and two women from Nicaragua and one man from Venezuela.
Except for two adult women and a minor of Cuban nationality.
During the search, state police, backed by INM agents, arrested and reported the Mexican person to the Attorney General (FGR) for a possible crime of human trafficking.
Despite tighter surveillance of Mexico’s southern border in recent years, thousands of migrants from Central America, as well as Cuba, Haiti, and various countries in South America, Africa, and Asia, enter Mexico to reach the United States.
Human traffickers look for routes for foreigners and sometimes stop in Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Mexico as intermediate stops when traveling to the United States.
The region is experiencing a record influx of migrants to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office has identified more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants across the Mexican border in fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30.
According to the Department of Migration Policy of the Ministry of Interior, Mexico in 2021 deported more than 114,000 foreigners.
In addition, the Mexican Refugee Assistance Commission (Comar) received a record 131,448 refugee applications in 2021.
Source: El Diario
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