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By: The opinion Posted Aug 22, 2023, 20:27 pm EDT
A group of 11 migrants of Venezuelan origin were located in Monterreyin the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, when they were staying in a house allegedly kidnapped.
According to the authorities, a person informed the authorities that a group of people deprived of their liberty was at a home, for which the State Investigation Agency (AEI) took up the case.
When the investigating agents moved to the site they were able to hear the screams of the peoplecoming from inside the building, for which they proceeded to open it by force and find the people in overcrowding.
Once the ransom was executed, the migrants were submitted for consideration by the National Institute of Migration (INM).
Although the identities of the Venezuelans were not revealed, it was established that They are six men, aged 52, 17, 6, 15, 37 and 30, as well as five women aged 25, 33, 9, 32 and 37..
These events occur in the midst of an upturn in the migratory flow through Mexico after the initial drop that caused the expiration last May of Title 42 of the United States, as recognized last week by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In recent weeks, reports of migrants dying while crossing the Rio Grande have grown, reflecting the unprecedented migratory flow in the region, with more than 2.76 million undocumented migrants intercepted by the United States at the border with Mexico during fiscal year 2022.
It should be noted that this type of event is not unprecedented, as there are other notorious cases of kidnapping of migrants, one of the most recent occurred in July, when the police in the State of Mexico, he rescued seven migrants kidnapped by human traffickers.
Among the victims were three minors of only 10, 6 and one year old. Five of the people who were deprived of their liberty were members of a family, in addition to a Honduran who was also among those affected.
According to the authorities, one of them managed to escape to ask for help to notify the authorities.
*With information from EFE.
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