Tapachula.- About 200 migrants from Haiti -of a total of 400- who entered Mexican territory in the morning by the Suchiate River, were arrested during a strong operation of the National Migration Institute (INM) and the National Guard (GN) in ejido San Nicholas Lagartero and expelled a Guatemala without migration protocol.
The Caribbean, among whom were men, and pregnant women and children with infants, entered Mexico irregularly by the Suchiate river and, guided by a trafficker of people, they crossed by scrubs, pastures and ways of loss until the ejido San Nicholas Lagartero, in the entrance to the municipal head of Tapachula, Where half a thousand agents of the INM and the GN with 20 vans and four buses.
Almost half of the group Haitian migrants managed to escape among the bushes, but the first to be secured were the families who did not resist.
The migrants were transferred to the border of Talisman, in the municipality of Tuxtla Chico, About 15 kilometers from Tapachula, under a strong security device.
In the place, a hundred migratory agents realized a human fence and forced the Haitians to walk by a corridor that took to them until Guatemalan territory, by the border of the Carmen, without protocol reception or health.
The group of Haitians enter in the neighboring country before the eyes of three members of the Guatemalan army, without being asked for papers or their status as Health or that they were registered.
Hundreds of agents from the National Migration Institute and the National Guard are involved in operations against Haitians. Photo: Maria de Jesús Peters. the Universal
For a month now, the Mexican government, through the INM, has been implementing operations and installing checkpoints on the road to city Hidalgo (Border town with Guatemala) in Tapachula to detain Haitian migrants trying to reach this city.
The operation is aimed at avoid than those in the Caribbean arrive at Tapachula, Where there is an overpopulation of irregular foreigners such as Haitians, Africans, Venezuelans, Cubans and Central Americans stranded waiting for a resolution of asylum procedures before the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar).
They flee in a caravan
Yesterday, a group of about 200 Haitians made up the fifth migrant caravan who left Tapachula on Saturday morning bound for Mexico City, due to the overcrowding that currently exists in this town and where about 400 migrants arrive daily.
The group of men, women and children evaded the first migratory reinforcement by way of loss (about five kilometers from the city) and, after walking 20 kilometers, they evaded the second migratory point in the municipality of Huehuetán, and then continued. in transport units at the municipal head of Huixtla.
Unlike the other four caravans violently dismantled by the INM and the National Guardl, this group was divided to travel in public service units to the municipality of Motozintla, in the Serra Mare of Chiapas, then they will look for ways of loss that will take them to cities like Committee O Sant Cristòfol de les Cases.
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