A tourist bus carrying 123 people of foreign origin was operated by elements of the National Guard in coordination with agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of the Government Secretariat as it passed through the municipality of Palmar de Bravo, in the central area of the state of Puebla.
As a result of intelligence actions and joint work between government agencies, 82 migrants from Guatemala were identified inside the bus; 12 from Honduras; nine from Cuba; seven from El Salvador, and 13 from Nicaragua.
As they were unable to verify their legal stay in the country, the 123 people were transferred to offices of the National Institute of Migration (INM) where the administrative process will begin which will define their legal status in Mexico.
In a statement, the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported that the driver and his assistant, both of Mexican nationality, as well as the tourist bus, were put to disposition of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) as they are related to the possible commission of the crime of trafficking in persons.
It should be mentioned that, in accordance with article 159 of the Federal Migration Act, a penalty of between eight and 16 years of imprisonment and a fine of between 5,000 and 15,000 days of minimum wage shall be imposed on anyone who:
- For the purpose of trafficking, take one or more persons into another country without appropriate documentation, in order to directly or indirectly obtain a profit
- Introduce, without the appropriate documentation, one or more foreigners to Mexican territory, in order to directly or indirectly obtain a profit
- Shelter or transport through the national territory, for the purpose of directly or indirectly obtaining a profit, to one or more foreigners in order to evade immigration review
Despite the efforts that Mexican authorities have made to control the migration crisis, it continues to grow, a factor that can be seen in the reports of the National Institute of Migration (INM), an institution that reports at least twice a week the discovery of migrants transiting illegally in different parts of the Mexican Republic.
Such was the case of 33 men, six women and six infants of Guatemalan origin; three women and six men from Cuba; one woman, two men and two minors from El Salvador and two Honduran people, who were found at interior of a tractor-truck that was traveling through the municipality of San Pedro Tapanatepec in Oaxaca last weekend.
The 61 migrants were traveling hidden in the box and cabin of the tractor-truck, however, when elements of the National Guard (GN) together with the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) and the Attorney General's Office (FGR) ordered the arrest of the transport unit at the checkpoint of the municipality of southeastern Mexico, the noise coming from inside the truck ended up betraying the presence of foreigners.
As in the case of the tourist truck in Puebla, migrants were taken to offices of the National Institute of Migration (INM), while the driver and his companion were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) for alleged trafficking in persons.
Despite the tightening of surveillance on Mexico's southern border in recent years, thousands of migrants from Central America, but also from Cuba, Haiti and various South American, African and Asian countries, enter Mexican territory with the aim of reaching the United States.
Human traffickers seek routes for foreigners and sometimes park in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla and the State of Mexico as an intermediate stop on their journey to the North American country.
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