Immigration authorities arrested in Mexico nine Cubans who traveled through Palmar de Bravo in the central area of the state of Puebla with a tourist bus.
The National Institute for Migration (INM) reported that the group of emigrants included a total of 123 foreigners of various nationalities traveling on tourist buses.
The migrants could not prove their regular residence on Mexican territory and were arrested.
Of these, 82 came from Guatemala, 12 from Honduras, nine from Cuba, seven from El Salvador and 13 from Nicaragua.
They were transferred to the INM offices to start the administrative process to clarify their legal situation in Mexico.
In addition to the foreigners, the bus driver and his assistant, both Mexican nationals, were also arrested. The authorities accuse them of the alleged crime of human trafficking. They were made available to prosecutors, as was the vehicle they were driving.
It was also reported on this Sunday 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.
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