Through an official statement, the National Migration Institute (INM) confirmed their participation in the events that took place last night in the Eduardo Guerra neighborhood of Torreón.
The document indicates that “in total adherence to human rights, the National Institute of Migration (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior rescued and identified 61 irregular migrants of different nationalities last night concentrated in the courtyard of the facilities of the company Ferrocarril Mexicano SA de CV (Ferromex) in Torreón, Coahuila”.
They are 30 adult men and 15 women, as well as 16 minors who traveled in 10 family nuclei; who traveled the railway route from Irapuato, Guanajuato, to Monterrey, Nuevo León.
Of the total number of migrants, 61 (29 are single men and women of legal age and 32 members of the 10 families) come from Venezuela; four from the Dominican Republic; two from China and one adult from each of the following countries: Nicaragua, Ecuador, Honduras and Turkey.
Given the notice from Ferromex about the presence of around 300 foreigners at its facilities, INM personnel, in the company of municipal and state public security elements, the document explains, went to carry out the corresponding immigration verification actions.
At the scene, they assured that they were confronted with sticks and stones and then jumped over the fences of the Ferromex facilities.
In said report, it is specified that none of the foreign migrants rescued and identified by the INM “record injuries.”
The adult foreigners were transferred to INM headquarters to initiate the administrative procedure that allows determining their legal status in national territory; while, those who make up the family nuclei, will be under the guardianship of the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (SNDIF) of the entity.