Less than 170 kilometers from reaching the Rio Grande to cross into the United States, this Sunday in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 58 Cubans and 14 other migrants from Colombia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic were detained, who were transported in 11 vans with dark windows.
The municipal police officers were alerted to several vehicles parked in the parking lot of a shopping center. “None of the migrants could prove their legal stay, so the support of Migration was requested,” who transferred them to different processing centers, he told 14ymedio a federal agent identified as Rubén.
The official indicated that the migrants arrived in Piedras Negras from the state of Nuevo León and were waiting to be transferred by coyotes to the limits of the Rio Grande and from there cross into the United States. “14 people were arrested, who stated that They were hired to drive the vans and once the people were delivered, they would return to the state.”
For its part, Migration specified in a statement that in the group 20 adults and minors were identified made up of seven families, who were under the guardianship of representatives of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).
This Sunday, a source confirmed to this newspaper that about 100 migrants from Honduras and Venezuela, who were in the Piedras Negras immigration station, were transferred to Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco, from where they would be repatriated to their countries of origin. .
That same day, reports were made of the rescue of 11 migrants who were being held in a mansion near the Rio Grande, in the El Centinela ejido. The members of the Civil Police of Coahuila detected several people who were lost in the undergrowth when they saw them approach.
Between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022, the United States Border Patrol (CBP) detained 224,607 Cubans without documentationa figure that means a growth of 471% compared to the same period of fiscal year 2021, or 1,502% compared to 2020 when the migratory flow decreased due to the closure of the borders due to the pandemic.
By sea, the US Coast Guard has intercepted 1,132 Cubans. Among the multiple attempts to leave the island, this Monday journalist Mario J. Pentón, with a family source, announced the “arrival of four Cuban stowaways to the port of New Orleans from Havana” this Sunday.
According to the communicator, the Cubans “arrived in the United States on the ship Green Mavericwhich brings chicken to the island. As confirmed by family sources, they fear being deported.”
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