In recent days, the authorities of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico detained 378 Nicaraguans who irregularly crossed the country using it as a transit step to reach the United States, reported in its website the American authority. Between September 24 and 26, the INM carried out various operations in 20 states of the Republic where they arrested 3,453 people of 50 nationalities who were crossing the territory in trucks and vans.
“As part of the actions to maintain safe, orderly and regular migration, Federal Migration Agents, in coordination with local authorities, carried out various verification actions on September 22 of the current year to safeguard the rights of foreigners who, by Not having the required documentation puts their life and physical integrity at risk,” said Mexico’s INM.
The INM expressed its concern and warned about the danger to which human traffickers expose migrants by irregularly seeking their transfer in inhumane conditions that have killed dozens of people in the last year. Mexico is a mandatory transit country for Nicaraguan migrants or exiles.
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The migration of Nicaraguans has registered unprecedented figures, even much higher than those recorded in the 1980s, during the first Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega. Most nationals flee the country due to the economic, social, political and human rights crisis that Nicaragua has been going through since April 2018 as a result of the state repression ordered by the dictatorship against social protests after failed social security reforms.
Between January and August 2022, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) registered 108 thousand 10 detentions of Nicaraguans. In 2021 there were 87,755 nationals detained at the border of the North American country, a much lower figure than that registered in the first eight months of this year.
Nicaragua ranked third among the countries that send the most migrants to the United States, only surpassed by Guatemala and Honduras.
