A total of 133 migrants from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, including 15 unaccompanied minors, were found crammed in the refrigerated box of a tractor-truck in the state of San Luis Potosí, as announced by the National Institute of Migration (INM).
Of the total, 127 come from Guatemala; four from Nicaragua and two from Honduras. In addition, 10 people were traveling in the family nucleus and 15 are unaccompanied minors.
Through a statement, the INM, under the Ministry of the Interior, specified that minutes before 04:00 hours this Tuesday (local time), INM agents located the tractor truck on state highway 75D, on the Río Verde-San Luis Potosí section.
The agents asked for the support of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) and the state police in locating and stopping the unit in which the transfer of foreigners was intended to be completed, who were unable to verify their regular stay in Mexican territory.
The trips of migrants crammed into trucks or trailers are one of the most dangerous ways used to smuggle across Mexico to the United States, something for which they pay thousands of dollars to traffickers.
It was just that way that last December 9, a tragic accident occurred, when a trailer suffered a rollover on the road from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in the state of Chiapas, in which 56 migrants died.
More than 160 foreigners were hiding in the vehicle, most from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.
Authorities indicated that in the case of the tractor-truck detected in San Luis Potosí of the 133 migrants, 35 women and 73 adult men, 15 unaccompanied minors and four people in the family were traveling from Guatemala.
In addition, four others, also in the family nucleus, from Nicaragua, and two members of a family from Honduras.
The note noted that adults were taken to INM offices to begin the migration process that defines their legal status in Mexico, while foreign families were placed under the supervision of the State's System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).
The region is experiencing a record flow of migrants to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended September 30.
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country's Ministry of the Interior.
In addition, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) received a record 131,448 refugee applications in 2021. Of these petitioners, more than 51,000 are Haitians.
EFE
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