Sonora authorities this Friday found 126 migrants crowded at a safe house in the community of Sonoyta and arrested two people involved in the events, who are accused of the crime of human trafficking. The images that emerged from the event show dozens of people sitting in front of a house where they have been locked up for a long time. Police have secured the building where these individuals were allegedly being held.
The Sonora prosecutor’s office is investigating the situation of these migrants of Ecuadorian origin who have been traveling for months to reach the border and reach the United States, their destination. The head of the attorney general’s office in that state, Francisco Sergio Méndez, reported that the migrants appeared to have brought “legal documents” with them for the trip and it was still unclear whether they were kidnapped for human trafficking or were about to cross on the Seek opportunities the other side of the Rio Grande. Sonoyta is located three miles from the United States border, bordering the small town of Lukeville, Arizona.
In the same week, Francisco Garduño Yáñez, commissioner of the National Institute of Migration (INM), was in this area and dedicated his trip to the border borders to draw attention to the new migratory routes that do not stop appearing. The INM representative spoke of an increase in the number of detained migrants of African, Asian and Eastern European descent as a result of the creation of new routes for the “illegal trafficking of undocumented migrants” from Mexico to the United States.
Cases of “rescues” of migrants by immigration authorities are becoming more frequent amid a confusing policy in coordination with the United States, which has talked about respecting migrants’ human rights to remove the buoys installed in the Rio Grande by the Republican government of Texas, while migrants “rescued” by security forces are detained and sent back to their countries.
On July 28, Migration Institute staff found 154 migrants being held at a safe house, also in Sonoyta, Sonora. The people were of African, Asian and South American origin and many minors were among the people found. The same thing happened on May 8, when 49 migrants were found on a farm in the municipality of Cruz de Elorza, in the state of Nuevo León.
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