The immigration authority Mexico He said Monday that he detained almost 6,000 migrants in four days, including 200 unaccompanied minors, mostly from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) said many of the migrants were located in safe houses, trailer boxes, cattle trailers, or hidden in bus compartments or tractor-trailer cabs.
He added that the migrants, mostly from HondurasCuba, GuatemalaNicaraguan, The SaviorColombia, VenezuelaPeru, Ecuador and Haiti, they suffered from overcrowded conditions and did not have water and food. Others were robbed or abandoned by human traffickers, he said.
The number of migrants crossing Mexico trying to reach the border with USA to seek asylum or cross into its territory has grown strongly in recent years, driven by poverty, natural disasters, political crises or organized crime.
Washington has said that on May 23 it will end the so-called Title 42, an order issued in 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. coronaviruswhich closed the United States asylum system on its more than 3,000-kilometer border with Mexico, which officials in some migrant-sending countries, such as Guatemala, fear will cause a greater flow of Central Americans north.
The INM he said he also detained mostly solo travelers from some African and European countries.
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