Mexico City, April 13 (EFE) – A total of 72 Central American migrants, including 22 unaccompanied minors, were found trapped in a box of trucks in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, the capital of the same state, according to reports. Wednesday National Institute for Migration (INM).
In a statement, the INM, which reports to the Secretariat of the Interior (Ministry), stated that as part of control and review programs, facility agents detected migrants when the vehicle in which they were traveling was traveling on Central Avenue. The capital of the state of Oaxaca.
They noted that the migrants were transported in the truck box overloaded condition, without water and ventilation.
INM reported that on Tuesday evening at 21:00 (Wednesday 02:00 GMT) agents stopped the driver of a truck that had stopped a few meters ahead to leave the department and flee the streets of the area.
Agents found 14 adult females from Guatemala and 36 adult males (30 from Guatemala, three from Honduras, two from Nicaragua and one from El Salvador).
Of the 22 unaccompanied minors, three were girls and 18 boys from Guatemala and one boy from El Salvador, who remained under the guardianship and protection of the State Integrated Family Development System (DIF).
Meanwhile, the car was at the disposal of the Attorney General (FGR).
Truck or trailer travel is one of the most dangerous ways for migrants to secretly cross Mexico on their way to the US.
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. More than 51,000 of these petitioners are Haitian.
Source: El Diario
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