Armed and in an official vehicle: they arrested Mexican soldiers who crossed the border into the United States

In the early hours of this Saturday, at least seven mexican soldiers They were detained to US Territory by Customs and Border Protection Elements, after crossing the Free bridge, known as De las Americas, in Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, and enter the neighboring country. The arrested objects belong to the Ninth Motorized Cavalry Regiment of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).

The military were going armed and aboard an official van of the Sedena, unveiled the Chihuahua Journal. Through social networks some images were broadcast where the soldiers are observed sitting on the ground and supposedly handcuffed, while in other photos a green Pickup type truck with an official number is observed and a few meters away the inspection booths of Customs and border protection, which was surrounded by vans of federal corporations from the United States.

They also watch soldiers lined up, provided by border agents who would have taken them handcuffed to certain offices of the Pont des Amériques, for the search, since they they stripped them of the weapons they were carrying.

Until the morning of this Saturday, the federal agency had not commented on this matter.

Francisco Garduño Yañez, owner of National Institute for Migration (IN M), pointed out to the media during his tour of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, where migrants to cross await the United States, which until “in the sky there is immigration control”.

According to an INM bulletin, Garduño went to Ciudad Acuña to coordinate the tasks of care and assistance to foreign migrants who are in this region. border area.

He noted that the Government of Mexico is committed to respecting and protecting the rights of migrants without neglecting the law, so that the Haitian situation in the country.

“For example, although it is not the same, but in heaven there is immigration control», Explained the head of the INM.

During a visit to a park where Haitians are camping, Garduño reported that thanks to a permanent dialogue table with representatives of the government of Haiti actions are coordinated in the service of their compatriots.

He said that Mexican law establishes that those who have come to the national territory and they asked for refuge, they must continue their proceedings before the corresponding authorities and in the region where it was initiated.

“That’s why,” said the INM commissioner– that air and land transport will be provided to allow migrants to return to the states from which they left to continue their process, ”he said.

According to the official, until last Wednesday there were between 500 and 600 Haitians in Ciudad AcuñaWhile on the American side there were around 3,300 people, although the number varies from day to day.

Garduño Yáñez, assured that Mexico “has never been a country of limits open ”, therefore the measures must be followed, illustrating that even“ in the sky there is a migratory control ”.

According to a report that the MNI released on Thursday, Federal migration officers (AFM) offer migrants located in the camps of Ciudad Acuña, decent spaces and services for their accommodation, while determining their legal status.

Likewise, it was reported that during his work in Ciudad Acuña, the official entered the territory of the United States where he visited, together with the commanders of the border patrols (Border patrol) the perimeter where the migrants – many of them in the family nucleus – coming from different nationalities, mainly from Haiti.

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