A total of 119 migrants of Guatemalan origin, including 33 minorswere detained at a checkpoint in the state of Oaxacareported the Migration’s national institute (INM).
In a statement, the INMdependent on the Secretary of Governorateindicated that of the total 85 are adult women and men, 33 minors who were traveling alone and one who was accompanied.
The INM indicated that at the checkpoint La Matain Asuncion Ixtaltepec, Oaxacaidentified on Wednesday 119 migrants from Guatemalawho were transported in two vehicles and also had an irregular stay in Mexico.
In the report, the institute reported that at 6:00 p.m., and as part of the national strategy to deal with the irregular migratory flow, agents of the INM They stopped two cargo vehicles, one with license plates of the Mexico state and the other of Oaxaca.
During the review, the agents detected, and later arrested, the 119 people migrants: 32 women, 53 men and 34 minors.
Adult foreigners were transferred to offices migratory to initiate the respective administrative procedure, while the minors remained under the tutelage of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) in the entity.
Meanwhile, the drivers and cargo vehicles remained at the disposal of the authority correspondent.
Since October 2018, and despite the tightening of the surveillance On the southern border of Mexico, thousands of migrants from Central America, but also from Cuba, Haiti and various African and Asian countries, enter Mexican territory with the aim of reaching the United States.
The dealers of people look for routes for foreigners and sometimes park in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Puebla as an intermediate stop on their journey to the United States.
Currently, the region is experiencing a record flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30.
Mexico intercepted more than 252 thousand undocumented migrants from January to November last and deported more than 100,000 in the same period, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
With information from EFE