Agents found 79 migrants gathered at a central hotel in Mexico

Mexico City, April 5 (EFE) – A total of 79 migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador, including a homeless minor, were found in overcrowded hotel rooms in central Mexico, National reported Monday. Institute for Migration (INM).

In a statement, the INM, which reports to the Secretariat of the Interior (Ministry), reported that the migrants were found in “overcrowded hotel rooms” located in the Mexican state, close to the capital.

The INM said the finding was the result of “immigration verification tasks” and, in coordination with agents of the National Defense Agency (Sedena), the National Guard (GN) and security agencies, who detected migrants overnight.

Of the total number of people, the institute said 74 adults were traveling in four family cores and one was a minor.

65 out of 74 people are from Guatemala; Seven emails from El Salvador, one from Honduras and another from Ecuador.

In addition to the adult male and female, each with their youngest daughter and son, respectively, and orphaned infants, of all Guatemalan nationalities, in this case four people remained under the guardianship and protection of the development system. Comprehensive Family (DIF).

Since October 2018 and despite the tightening of surveillance on the southern border of Mexico, thousands of migrants from Central America, as well as Cuba, Haiti and various countries in South America, Africa and Asia, have entered 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 wave of migration

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.