By: Real America News Updated 22 Jan 2022, 21: 42 pm EST
Some 100 Central American migrants who were traveling hidden in a trailer were detained by Mexican authorities in Coahuila.
“The National Migration Institute (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) last night rescued 65 migrants crowded inside the dry box of a trailer that was traveling on Highway 57 Matehuala-Monterrey,” the agency reported on Saturday. The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) also participated in the operation.
Of the 65 captured migrants, 41 people are from Nicaragua, 15 from Honduras, four from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and three Mexicans.
“The people from Central American nations were taken to migratory headquarters to start the corresponding administrative process. The other three, apparently of Mexican origin, were channeled to the FGR to determine their legal status,” the statement added. “The INM endorses its commitment to safe, orderly and regular migration, with full respect for rights and safeguarding the rights of people in the context of mobility through national territory.”
The smuggling of migrants in trailers is a sad habit on Mexican highways, for which there is a record flow of migrants to the United States, where the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico until September 2021.
Mexico detained To over 252,000 undocumented migrants from January to November and deported more than 100,000 in the same period, the highest figures in 15 years, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Mexican authorities have been criticized for the deployment of more than 20,04 elements of the Armed Forces at the northern and southern borders to contain the migrants.