3,263 migrants located in different operations in Mexico in one day

More than 3,200 migrants from 50 countries were placed in Mexico in different operations carried out in a single day in 20 districts of the country, reported the National Institute of Migration (INM).
On Thursday, September 22, “3,263 migrants were rescued in one day (…) which prevented his life from being in danger as he passed irregularly through Mexican territory,” the INM said in a statement.
The authorities indicated that among these persons without the required documentation are 377 minors and 777 women.

The largest group comes from Venezuela (1,259), followed by Guatemala (616), Nicaragua (364), Colombia (228), Honduras (192) and Peru (129), among other Latin American countries.
There are also citizens from other regions, especially from Eastern Europe and Africa.
Read: Migration routes are traced with the disappearances and deaths of migrants

Many of the migrants located are returned to their countries, while others initiate asylum applications and in some cases can obtain safe conduct with a deadline to leave Mexico.
In the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala and is the gateway to the bulk of the irregular migratory flow entering Mexico, more than half of the undocumented foreigners were located.
Migrants seek to reach the U.S.
Every year, thousands of migrants from various countries seek to reach the United States fleeing poverty and violence. On their way through Mexico they are often victims of extortion by Mexican authorities, but also by criminal gangs.
The number of people trying to cross into U.S. territory from Mexico increased with the arrival of Democrat Joe Biden to the White House in January 2021.
Mexico has stepped up its military operations to combat the irregular migration flow. This has led the undocumented to resort to increasingly dangerous means to travel mexico, such as traveling crowded in trucks.
On December 9, 2021, a trailer carrying about 160 migrants crashed into a pedestrian bridge on a Chiapas highway, killing 56 people.
On June 27, the bodies of 53 migrants, the vast majority of them Mexicans, were found in the box of a truck in the city of San Antonio, Texas.
Read: 9 migrants drown while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border
Since 2014, some 6,430 migrants have died or disappeared on the way to the United States, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and 850 have perished in accidents or from traveling in subhuman conditions.
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