Immigration Services of Mexico she arrested nine Cuban immigrants who were crammed into a truck driving through the city of San Pedro Tapanatepec, in the state of Oaxaca.
“That National Migration Institute (INM) determined by the Ministry of the Interior 61 foreign migrants crowded in the driver’s cab and in the dry box of a truck traveling through San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca, in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, bordering the state of Chiapas,” the authorities reported in an official statement released on this 9.4.
agents from the National Guard (GN)that Secretary of the Navy (Semar) and the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR)who discovered the group of immigrants, including six men and three women of Cuban nationality.
The vehicle was checked at a checkpoint on a highway in San Pedro Tapanatepec. Noises coming from inside alerted the police.
The undocumented immigrants were hidden in the driver’s cab and dry box of a tractor-trailer truck that appeared to be traveling through the Tehuantepec isthmus to Chiapas. The driver, attendant and vehicle remained available to the FGR.
The group also consisted of people Guatemala, El Salvador and Hondurasincluded nine minors Travel without adult supervision. The authorities also decide on the fate of these migrants relevant.
“The INM supports its Commitment to safe, orderly and regular migrationwith full respect for rights and protection of people in the context of domestic mobility,” added the INM in the statement.
Reports of large groups of immigrants being uncovered come almost daily. In most operations, they are detained Cuban citizens attempting to reach the border and enter the United States.
On April 7th Mexican authorities discovered four Cubans who were hiding in a truck with 163 other people of Central American origin: 135 from Guatemala, 20 from Honduras and eight from El Salvador.
Just a day before a group of 70 Cuban immigrants and other nationalities hidden in the engine room and water well of a hotel in Oaxaca were arrested by that state’s municipal police.
As part of the increase in the flow of migration through Mexico, the authorities of that country have increased surveillance and control measures and, in the case of people from Cuba repatriation actions.
Last Thursday, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador 32 Cubans repatriatedincluding a minor, as part of the 13th such operation in 2022. The immigrants arrived at Havana’s José Martí International Airport.
Especially the Mexican authorities expedited the deportation of undocumented immigrants arriving in the town of Piedras Negrasin the state of Coahuila, an area that has become a frequent location for crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, USA.
An example of the deep Cuban migration crisis is the high number of people detected by US border patrols. They were not accounted for until March 2022 more than 32,000 Cuban migrantsdouble that 16,550 were registered at border crossings in Mexico last February.