The Yucatan State Police detained 241 migrants between Friday and Saturday, including a group of seven Cubans who They were traveling with 155 other people. in two trucks. Among the island’s nationals there is “a family with a minor” who “asked not to be separated, but that already depends on the National Institute of Migration (INM),” he told 14ymedio an officer identified as Dario.
The agency has received alerts about the flow of migrants since the middle of last month, explained the uniformed officer, who explained that this made it possible to locate three groups, one of 155 and another with 86 undocumented immigrants, detected “thanks to the overflight of drones in a garbage dump.” .
The Cubans are at the INM facilities in Yucatan. “These people will not be deported,” Darío stressed, but they will be returned to the border with Guatemala “when Migration defines it.” According to him, the migrants “receive a 20-day stay permit to leave the country, but what they do is continue towards the United States border.”
The Cubans were detained at a checkpoint located on the highway from Mérida to Campeche. “At the time of the review, seven of the people who were traveling presented regular stay permits and were released, the rest were handed over to the INM. The drivers were arrested.”
The officer said that these migrants planned to reach Campeche and from there “cross Veracruz until they reached Tamaulipas. It is what we know as the Gulf of Mexico route.” These arrests They are not part of the routes that the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office is investigating.of which up to now they have not offered results.
In addition to the seven Cubans detained, there are 67 from Guatemala, 45 from India, nine from Brazil and the Dominican Republic, seven from Honduras, six from Vietnam and five from El Salvador.
Of the 86 migrants arrested in the Seyé municipal garbage dump, a town of 10,000 inhabitants that sustains its local economy by leasing hostels and houses to visiting tourists, the officer mentioned that “the coyotes that brought them abandoned them.”
A first group with 40 people from India, 15 from Guatemala and one from El Salvador “was helped by residents, who notified the authorities.” According to the data offered, “they paid between 300 and 600 pesos to take them by an alternative route to Campeche, but they abandoned them on the way.”
The Police used drones to locate the rest of the other foreigners who were scattered on the mountain. “In the group there are seven children and a pregnant woman. They all received medical assistance and after that they were handed over to Migration.”
According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, last year 444,439 migrants were detained for illegal entry into Mexico, 42,667 of them were Cubans. As of February, there is a record of 17,023 island nationals who entered the country with documents.
Meanwhile, the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees reported that as of last March, 2,596 Cubans requested asylum.
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