Mexico, Mexico.
The Mexican National Guard intercepted a truck heading to the U.S. border with 108 Central American migrants crammed inside, the Secretary of Homeland Security and Citizen Protection reported Saturday.
“Elements of the National Guard patrolling in the vicinity of the municipality of General Bravo, state of Nuevo León, assisted 108 Central American migrants heading to the north of the country and traveling in the trunk of a tractor truck in overcrowded conditions, “the unit said. a statement.
According to the report, the agents intercepted the truck, coupled to a semi-trailer, in the cabin they found five people of Honduran origin.
“When they approached the box, they heard several blows, so they asked the driver for an inspection. When they opened the doors, they noticed that they were moving 103 Central American citizens, who did not they had the documentation to protect their legal stay in the country, “the statement said.
According to the Security Secretariat, water was provided to the migrants and they were later transferred to facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM).
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Friday the resumption from February 19 of the attention of asylum seekers returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as “Stay in Mexico”.
This program, promoted by former President Donald Trump, left thousands of migrants stranded in border camps waiting in Mexico for their asylum application to be resolved before the United States.
Despite the announcement, the Mexican Government he appealed the same Friday to migrants not to go to the border, as the Biden measure will only be applied in particular cases and border crossings remain closed.
Many migrants in northern Mexico suffer attacks from criminal groups or are victims of human trafficking mafias.
On January 22, 19 bodies were found, most of them Guatemalans, burned in a van in the border state of Tamaulipas.
However, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who backed Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” program, said this week that there is no “human rights violation” of migrants in the country.