at least 17 Cuban migrants They were arrested by immigration authorities and the Mexican National Guard on board a bus at a bus station in Puebla state.
“During a migration control visit to the bus station in Puebla, the National Migration Institute (INM), with the support of the Mexican National Guard, rescued 17 foreigners from Cuba who were traveling irregularly on board a bus,” the INM Twitter reported on Monday.
Last April 12, that also turned out to be the case Mexican immigration authorities arrested nine Cubans who traveled through Palmar de Bravo in the central area of the state of Puebla with a tourist bus.
According to the INM, the Cubans were traveling with a group of 123 foreigners of various nationalities who were arrested because they could not prove that they were legally resident in Mexican territory.
Of these, 82 came from Guatemala, 12 from Honduras, nine from Cuba, seven from El Salvador and 13 from Nicaragua.
It was also reported shortly before this event Arrest of a group of 63 migrants among them were Cubans, Guatemalans and Hondurans hidden in a truck in the city of Veracruz.
The day before, nine other Cubans were arrested while traveling in an overcrowded truck in the city of San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca state.
Cuba is in a new migration crisis. In March, irregular entry of Cubans through the southern border of the United States exceeded 32,000 people. Some specialists believe the traveling avalanche will be of similar or greater magnitude than the 1980 Mariel exodus.
So far this year, Mexican authorities have arrested more than 15,000 Cuban immigrants in an irregular situation in their country.
According to a statement by the INM, between January 1 and Wednesday, April 13, 115,379 foreigners who had entered Mexican territory or were transiting irregularly were arrested.
Of these, at least 15,907 are Cubans, representing the third-largest group of immigrants crossing Mexico in search of the border with the United States, surpassed only by Hondurans (21,965) and Guatemalans (21,954).
The states where most arrests take place are in Chiapas, Mexico City, Baja California, Tabasco and Veracruz.
So far in 2022, the Mexican government has repatriated 928 Cubans 14 air deportations.
However, thousands of Cubans continue to enter Mexico across the southern border to reach the United States.
March, More than 32,000 Cubans crossed the border into Mexico into the United Statesa traveling avalanche that has already surpassed that of the rafters of 1994 and is approaching the magnitude of the 1980 Mariel exodus.
The number for March doubles 16,550 Cubans who entered North American territory in February after passing the border points of Mexico.