New Leon, Mexico
A total of 648 migrants Central Americans, in addition to Haiti, Cuba and Ecuador, including 67 minors alone, were found in the last week crammed into homes and buses in the Mexican state of new Lion (North), the National Migration Institute (INM) reported on Wednesday.
In a statement, the INM indicated that agency agents, state investigators and state police found this total of people from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba and Ecuador, “piled up in homes and on board buses located in different areas of the state. “
Among them was the identification of 414 migrants traveling in 155 households, in addition to 67 minors traveling the country without company and 167 adults traveling alone.
“In some cases migrants were located from anonymous alerts or through an instant messaging app for mobile phones alerting them to irregular situations,” the INM reported.
Among them is the case registered last Monday, in which, based on a message using an instant messaging application for mobile phones, a house in the municipality of Apodaca was described.
Minor migrants
In this place the authorities found 77 people from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, including 18 single adults, 6 unaccompanied minors and 53 more (25 minors and 28 adults) who were part of families.
While at midnight last Saturday, a warning from the state police about the presence of people of foreign origin in a house in the municipality of Juárez allowed migration and state agents to identify 139 migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, including 84 people in the family, 39 single adults and 16 unaccompanied minors.
Meanwhile, last Tuesday at noon, the Attorney General’s Office of the State reported a home in the municipality General Zuazua with the presence of possibly foreigners.
15 Guatemalans, 13 Salvadorans and two adults were identified at the scene Hondurans.
Also on Tuesday morning, on Highway 57, at a checkpoint, 36 migrants from Honduras (16), Haiti (5), Guatemala (4), Ecuador (2) and Cuba (9) on board passenger buses of a commercial line.
The finding comes after last week, in the Mexican municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, 4 migrant caravans were formed, last Saturday, and, although they all advanced tens of kilometers, they were disbanded by Mexican agents in the same state.
Various organizations, including UN agencies, have noted that in their disintegration there has been excessive use of force.
As of October 2018, and despite the tightening of surveillance on Mexico’s southern border, thousands of migrants from Central America, Cuba, and Haiti are entering Mexican territory with the goal of arriving in the United States.
Traffickers search for routes for foreigners and occasionally transit in the south-southeastern states of the country, such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and Oaxaca.
In addition to those in the north, such as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, border with the United States, last stops on its journey to the US EFE