Federal authorities detained 130 Guatemalan and Honduran migrants, including 30 minors, who were being transported in a truck box in Mezcalapa, Chiapas.
According to the National Guard and the National Institute of Migration (INM), the arrest was on kilometer 113+000 of the Las Choapas-Ocozocuautla highway, where the truck was traveling without red lights, so he was arrested.
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“The driver reported transporting various parcels and shelf items; however, when the door of the box was opened, people of Central American origin were found who were traveling on their feet and lacked documents proving their legal stay in the country,” the INM said in a statement.
@INAMI_mx and @GN_MEXICO_ identified 130 migrants ???? including 30 minors on the Las Choapas-Ocozocuautla highway #Chiapas. They were travelling in an overcrowded condition in the box of a truck; they did not accredit their regular stay. https://t.co/V7sE7Bijag pic.twitter.com/K3xCOiw21f
— INM (@INAMI_mx) July 13, 2021
According to the migration authorities, the detainees made appropriate arrangements for them to receive consular assistance or to be deported.
Meanwhile, unaccompanied minors and families were transferred to the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).
Meanwhile, the driver of the truck was arrested and placed at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office, based in Tuxtla Gutierrez.
Last June, more than 100 migrants were also detained in a tractor-trailer bound for the north of the country. Due to lack of oxygen, a 25-year-old man died and a 2-year-old boy was abandoned in the narrowing of a road. Seven more people were helped
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