MIAMI, United States.- More than twenty Cubans, as part of a group of 266 migrants, were found when they were transported in three trailers and were driving along a highway in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, in northern Mexico, reported this National Guard Tuesday.
According to a note from the EFE news agency, which cites a statement from the security body, most of the migrants were Central Americans, and the discovery was made in the municipality of Galeana, south of Nuevo León, at kilometer 93. from the Linares-San Roberto highway, Puerto El Tokio.
The report specified that, of the total of 266 migrants, 80 were from Guatemala, 78 from Nicaragua, 48 from El Salvador, 26 from Cuba, 19 from Honduras, 13 from Ecuador and two from the Dominican Republic.
The Cubans and the rest of the migrants “were traveling aboard three tractor-trailers,” the National Guard said in the statement without further details.
The migrants were transferred by the National Institute of Migration (INM) to its facilities in the municipality of Guadalupe, conurbation with Monterrey, to determine their immigration status.
Traveling crammed into trailers is one of the most dangerous ways migrants use to clandestinely cross Mexico to the United States, something for which they pay traffickers thousands of dollars.
According to the EFE note, under this modality, on December 9, 2021, a tragic accident was recorded when a trailer overturned on the highway from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in the state of Chiapas, and 56 migrants died.
Human traffickers look for routes for migrants and sometimes station themselves in the southern and northern states of the country as a stopover on their journey to the United States.
The region lives a migratory flow record to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has intercepted more than 1.7 million people so far in fiscal year 2022, which began on October 1 last.
In addition, the Aztec country received a record of more than 58,000 refugee applications in the first half of 2022, an annual increase of almost 15%, according to the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance.
So far in 2022, Mexico has returned 1,629 Cubans who had left the island legally and after their arrival in the Aztec nation tried to emigrate to the United States.
The information was shared last week by the Granma newspaper, a few days after the repatriation of 60 Cuban migrants (33 women and 27 men) from Mexico was revealed.
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