A group of 46 Cubans was arrested this Monday in a rural community in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico, confirmed to 14ymedio Officer Jacinto Buendía of the municipal police. “During a surveillance tour, several people with backpacks were seen getting out of a car and running into a farm.”
The officers intercepted the vehicle with out-of-state plates, for which they detained the driver, who identified himself as Ricardo and denied having left people on the farm. “The 27-year-old subject was charged with migrant smuggling.” At a nearby corn grinder, officers were told that the place was a forager that had been closed since before the covid-19 pandemic.
The farm called Forrajera López is located on state highway 77, which connects the towns of Arellano with El Retoño. According to the testimonies collected by the police, there was a place in the place where food was sold to feed cows and pigs, but “it did not last even three months open.”
“The Aguascalientes route is widely used by Central Americans. These Cubans were going to be transferred to Tamaulipas to be transferred from there to the United States,” Buendia said. The detainees, 29 men and 17 women, in addition to a Guatemalan, “did not present transit papers, so they were handed over to Immigration.”
Buendía indicated that the relationship between the Forrajera Ganaderos de Aranda company and the farm where the Cubans were found is being investigated. However, those in charge of the trade located in the state of Jalisco, assured 14ymedio have no subsidiaries.
The member of the Committee on Migratory Affairs of the Aguascalientes Congress, Emanuelle Sánchez Nájera, pointed out that one of the problems with migration is that “they are being denied permits” for their free transit to the United States. “This is going to continue to generate new problems “.
Reaching US territory is the dream of Cubans, but history does not always favor them. A group of 60 natives of the Island was returned to Mexico. These people expressed their disagreement and said they were deceived, because after crossing the border through Ciudad Juárez and spending five days in a detention center, they were returned, according to a video published by Telemundo journalist Alexis Boentes.
This weekend there were also arrests of rafters and 32 Cubans were taken into custody, as announced Border Patrol Chief Walter Slosar. “After being processed, they will be released into the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service.”
Slosar warned that “as the summer months approach and temperatures rise, this journey becomes increasingly dangerous” and asked migrants “to avoid risking their lives by going to sea or being victims of unscrupulous smugglers.” .
This Monday the official SlosarIn addition, it confirmed the arrest of another 11 Cubans, who were intercepted after making landfall in the Florida Keys. “This is the sixth event since Friday” of the arrival of rafters.
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