Human traffickers look for routes for foreigners and sometimes station themselves in Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla, and the State of Mexico as an intermediate stop on their journey to the United States.
The region is experiencing a record flow of migrants to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30 .
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
In addition, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) received a record 131,448 refugee applications in 2021.
