Mexico City
Nearly a hundred migrants Central Americans and Cubans They were detained by Mexican authorities after they arrived at the airport in the northern city of Monterrey without documents showing that they stayed in the country regularly, the government reported Saturday.
National Institute of Migration (INM) agents identified Friday 70 Hondurans, 14 Guatemalans, six Salvadorans and five Cubans who arrived on two commercial flights at Monterrey International Airport, Nuevo León – a border state with the United States. One was from Villahermosa, Tabasco, while the other was from Cancun, Quintana Roo, two states to the Southeast.
The majority (72 out of 95) apparently arrived in 27 family groups “of between two and five members each,” the Interior Ministry, on which the INM depends, detailed in a statement.
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100 thousand Persons It was not until February 2021 that they were stopped by the American authorities who tried to cross the border. |
Eight members of the group are unaccompanied minor women – four from Honduras, three from El Salvador and one from Guatemala – and were under the tutelage of the state system for integrated family development, which will also attend and house the 27 families, he added . Secretary.
The remaining 15 adults, three women and 12 men, were transferred to an immigration station in Nuevo León to begin the process of returning to their countries of origin.
The flow of undocumented immigrants trying to reach Mexico’s border with the United States has increased since the beginning of President Joe Biden’s administration in January, which dismantled some of Donald Trump’s administration.
Thousands of people, mostly Central Americans, have returned to the border hoping to cross and seek asylum, claiming the poverty and violence they suffer in their countries of origin.
Data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office indicates that in February alone, 100,000 people were caught attempting to enter that country illegally.
The Mexican government, for its part, has stepped up controls on its border with Guatemala to prevent the passage of undocumented immigrants trying to reach the United States only, after identifying 4,180 Central American minors who have been traveling irregularly since January.