The National Migration Institute (INM) of the Mexican Ministry of the Interior detained 159 Central American migrants who were established in a vacant lot in Puebla and another part was moving in a truck on the highway to Cuernavaca. 12 people in this group are Nicaraguan citizens.
When carrying out verification actions in the municipality of Acajete in Puebla, INM federal agents located a camp and a trailer box in the Puebla area. “In coordination with elements of the state police, the personnel of the institute approached the site, since disorder was observed in the camp and noises were heard inside said trailer box. After verifying their health status, it was found that there were 143 people, of whom 25 were unaccompanied minors, nine accompanied, as well as 22 women and 87 adult men, “says the institute’s report.
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“In another migration verification action on the Puebla-Cuernavaca highway, at the height of the municipality of Atlixco, immigration agents stopped a truck that was transporting more people than allowed, which caught the attention of the institute’s staff,” expresses the report that details that 16 people who were inside the trailer could not prove their regular stay in Mexican territory.
«The driver of the unit with plates from the state of Aguascalientes was arrested by the municipal police. In both events, 117 people from Guatemala, 18 from Ecuador, 12 from Nicaragua, eight from El Salvador and four from Honduras were rescued, “adds the INM.
The Mexican institution assures that all the detainees were transferred to its facilities to “follow up on their administrative migratory situation, while the minors remained under guardianship for their custody and protection of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) Of the entity”.
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In Mexico, the Government has deployed almost 30,000 members of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern borders, where in the last three months they have intercepted 124,300 migrants, 115% more than the same previous period, according to records from the Ministry of the National Defense.
The transfer of migrants reflects the record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has intercepted more than 1.82 million people so far in fiscal year 2022, which began in last october.
