▲ Undocumented immigrants of six nationalities traveled in 13 vehicles; they also captured 19 smugglers.Photo taken from Twitter
From the Editorial Office and Eirinet Gómez, Leopoldo Ramos and Silvia Chávez
correspondents
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 24, 2022, p. 4
A group of more than 400 migrants of various Central American and Cuban nationalities were rescued yesterday by federal migration elements and state police in two different actions in two entities of the country.
Agents from the National Institute of Migration (INM) yesterday detained 330 migrants on the Puebla-Orizaba highway, which constitutes one of the largest arrests that have been made in recent times.
In a statement, the institute pointed out that this fact can be classified as historical in at least the last three years
and detailed that, of the total number of detainees, 108 are of Cuban nationality; 14, Ecuadorian; 55, Salvadoran; 44, Nicaraguan; 36, Guatemalan, and 73, Honduran.
The INM indicated that migrants with irregular stay
They traveled through national territory in 11 vans and two private cars. And they were detected from intelligence work undertaken by elements of the INM and the National Guard (GN).
In another operation, elements of the state police rescued 99 migrants who were traveling crowded in the box of a trailer, heading from Torreón, Coahuila, to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
Around 4:00 am yesterday, elements of the state stopped the driver of a tractor-trailer on the Luis Echeverría peripheral heading east, in front of the men’s Cereso. After requesting the inspection of the box, the policemen noticed the presence of people who were traveling lying down and covered with blankets.
The migrants, originally from Ecuador, Honduras, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, and mostly from Cuba, were transferred to the INM in the state capital. While the driver was placed at the disposal of the authorities of the Attorney General of the Republic for being a crime under federal jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, in the state of Mexico, 12 migrants from El Salvador were helped and sheltered by personnel from the Ecatepec Police Migrant Attention Cell, because they were wandering the streets of the San Carlos neighborhood completely exhausted and even one of them with principles of dehydration.
