To avoid being detained, this Tuesday 70 migrants, including 55 Cubans, were hidden by three coyotes in a water well and the engine room of the María Teresa hotel, located in the state of Oaxaca (Mexico), informs 14ymedio Raúl Ávila Ibarra, local Security and Civil Protection command. “We have a detainee and we are looking for two more who were at the head of the group.”
The policemen were intercepted by a couple on Tuesday afternoon and alerted them that some armed people took several foreigners off a bus and took them to the hotel, which is located 20 minutes from the International Highway, which connects Oaxaca with the state. from Puebla. “The guards requested support from the corporation and when more elements arrived, the smugglers hid the illegals,” says Ávila.
“When entering the rooms, only backpacks, bottles of water and canned food were found,” he continues. “It was an officer who, being near the well, heard some murmurs and when he checked he found several Cubans, among them, a family made up of two women and a minor.”
Another part of the group was in the engine room of the accommodation. The officers gathered, in addition to the 55 Cubans, 14 from Nicaragua and one from Venezuela. The smuggler The 32-year-old is of Mexican origin and was placed at the disposal of the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office and will face charges for migrant smuggling.
The 32-year-old smuggler is of Mexican origin and was made available to the Attorney General of the state of Oaxaca and will face charges for migrant smuggling
“The subject was found communication radios, some visas and QR for transit, in addition to two false voter credentials, but none correspond to the migrants,” Ávila mentions. “We are investigating possible torture or retention, but so far none of the migrants has accused the detainee of these crimes.”
Immigration issued a statement this Wednesday referring to a “possible crime of illegal human trafficking”, without indicating the place where the 70 migrants were taken. It was a local official, who indicated that the people were coming from the city of Tapachula and intended to arrive in Nuevo Laredo this Friday to cross into the United States by raft. “They are going to be given 20 days to leave the country and they will be released,” confirmed the source.
This Wednesday, another mobilization was alerted in the hostel area of Oaxaca. In the San Martín Mexicapan neighborhood, where migrants can spend the night for 120 pesos, 20 foreigners were detained.
“Oaxaca is a crossing point for migrants, daily we locate groups of migrants in buses, cargo vans, vans,” Ávila points out.
Human traffickers seek routes for foreigners and sometimes stay in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Puebla as a stopover on their journey to the United States.
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