▲ A group of mostly African migrants wait to be processed by Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border, in an aerial image taken from Tijuana, Baja California, over the weekend.Afp photo
Elio Henríquez, Raúl Robledo and Rubén Villalpando
correspondents
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, November 14, 2022, p. 16
At least six migrants from Central America were injured early yesterday when a vehicle in which they were being transported overturned on a road that connects San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, with the San Lucas community.
Residents assured that between 2 and 3 in the morning, a vehicle was being followed by agents of the National Guard (GN), who detected some 40 foreigners, presumably Guatemalans, who were traveling in the vehicle.
Official sources indicated that the injured, including a woman, were transferred to the Hospital de las Culturas, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, where it was reported that they did not suffer serious blows.
Inhabitants of the area where the accident occurred indicated that the other undocumented immigrants dispersed and were not found by the immigration authorities.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of Guadalupe, conurbated with Monterrey, Nuevo León, agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM) detained 18 undocumented immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and Ecuador, who were transported in a vehicle by a subject identified as Giovanni Jonás C. , 25 years old.
Municipal police officers arrested him for driving the unit at excessive speed, in which he was carrying the migrants, at the height of Miguel de la Madrid boulevard, in the Siete Colinas neighborhood. The Central Americans, including a woman and a minor, were made available to the INM at the agency’s facilities in Guadalupe.
Likewise, municipal and federal authorities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, offered the approximately 2,000 Venezuelan migrants who camp on the banks of the Rio Grande, a space in shelters, so that they can take shelter from the low temperatures that prevail in the area.
However, only a hundred of them have accepted, being sure that the US government will take pity on them and grant them asylum.
