Mexican authorities sheltered at least 368 migrants in the town of Copainalá, in the southern state of Chiapas, who will remain in the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico, waiting to prove their legal stay or be deported to their countries of origin. .
Among the migrants of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador nationalities, there were men, women and children, all without having the official document that would allow them to pass through national territory.
The shelter was carried out between the INM, the National Guard and the Mexican Army, who were alerted by the residents of the area of a large group of migrants who were abandoned in the vicinity of the highway that connects Copainalá with Chicoasén, in the south Mexican.
According to the authorities, the foreigners were evaluated in the area to find out their health situation, waiting for them to be transferred to the INM headquarters to continue with their legal procedure or they could be deported to their country.
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The personnel assigned to the downtown area of Tuxtla Gutiérrez transferred 217 Guatemalans, 7 Salvadorans, 45 Ecuadorians, 3 Cubans, 11 Hondurans, and 85 Nicaraguans, according to official reports.
There are 228 male adults, 30 single minors, 30 family nuclei with 54 members, and 66 females.
In a first group, the authorities transferred six pregnant women, so the process was slow, due to the condition of these people.
This is one of the important mass seizures taking place in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
The foreigners were found near the Grijalva River, an area with difficult access, so the authorities came walking to find the migrants.
These foreigners were taken to the provisional residence in Tuxtla Gutiérrez on buses run by the Mexican authorities to determine their immigration status in the country.
