Authorities rescue 110 migrants crammed in trailer box in northern Mexico
On Thursday, September 23, Mexican authorities rescued in the state of Nuevo Leon (north) 110 foreign migrants traveling in overcrowded conditions in the dry box of a trailer towards the border with the United States, informed the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico.
In a statement, the entity detailed that federal agents of the INM detected the cargo unit during a tour carried out with public security elements of the municipality of Galeana as part of migration control tasks.
“The voices and whispers evidenced the presence of minors and adults inside the truck. Migrants of different nationalities who could not prove their regular stay in the national territory were located.”
“In strict adherence to human rights, they were taken to the state’s migratory headquarters to provide them with water, food, and medical attention since they were being transported in overcrowded and unventilated conditions,” added the INM.
According to the identification made during the administrative migration procedure, 96 rescued migrants came from Guatemala, seven from Ecuador, five from El Salvador, and two from Honduras.
Rescues and detentions of irregular migrants in Mexico are frequent in the context of the migration crisis that the Central American region has been experiencing in recent years.
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to official figures.
The number of migrants apprehended by the United States at the border with Mexico between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021, was 1,734,686, the all-time high for a fiscal year.
Apprehensions since last October 1 exceeded that amount, totaling 2,150,639 as of August 31, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
In a fateful episode of the migration crisis, a cargo trailer with 67 migrants was abandoned by human smugglers on June 27 in the San Antonio metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Texas, amid extreme heat and after having circumvented several security controls, resulting in the death of 53 migrants.
With information from Xinhua
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