Mexico, Mexico.
The Mexican National Guard intercepted a truck bound for the U.S. border with 108 Central American migrants crammed into it, the Department of Security and Civil Defense reported Saturday.
Elements of the National Guard patrolling near General Bravo municipality, Nuevo León state, assisted 108 Central American migrants heading north of the country traveling in the box of a tractor-trailer in overcrowded conditions, ” explained the agency in a statement.
According to the account of the events, the agents intercepted the truck, coupled to a trailer, in whose cabin they found five people of Honduran descent.
As they approached the coffin, several knocks were heard, so they asked the driver for an inspection. When they opened the doors, they realized they were transferring 103 Central American citizens, who did not have the documentation. that their legal stay in the country. ”, the statement said.
According to the Secretariat of Security, water was provided to the migrants and later they were transferred to facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM).
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Friday the resumption of care for asylum seekers who have returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as ‘Stay in Mexico’.
This program, which was promoted by former President Donald Trump, stranded thousands of migrants in border camps in Mexico who had to wait for their asylum applications for the United States to be resolved.
Despite the announcement the Mexican government on the same Friday, appealed to migrants not to go to the border, as Biden’s measure will only be applied in a few specific cases and border crossings remain closed.
Many of the migrants in northern Mexico are being attacked by criminal groups or are victims of human trafficking mafias.
On January 22, 19 bodies, most of them from Guatemala, were found burned in a truck in the border state of Tamaulipas.
However, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who supported Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” program, said this week that there is no “human rights violation” of migrants in the country.