More than 100 Central American migrants were abandoned at a house in Tlaxcala, central Mexico

In a safe house located in the town of San Pablo del Monte, in the federative entity of Tlaxcala, They were 136 people rescued migrants of different nationalities by the National Institute for Migration (INM).

The presence was signaled by a call to 911, number of emergency services.

The address where the more than 100 migrants, of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, is located on Cinco de Febrero street.

In its Twitter account, the Institute reported that “there was 68 family members and 19 unaccompanied minors“.

Elements of the National Guard, the Citizen’s Security Secretariat (SSC) and the municipal police arrived at the property to keep home.

The migrants were abandoned at home: their objective was to be transferred to the United States.

INM said agency staff provided transport for undocumented migrants in a shelter to start repatriation procedures.

Federal authorities intercepted in the afternoon of April 1 a group of 70 migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as part of operations at the southern border of the country.

Staff of the National Institute for Migration (INM), in collaboration with the National Guard (GN), arrested people who were moving “irregularly” along the road section City of San Gregorio Chamic-Cuauhtémoc, within the municipality Comalapa, In Chiapas.

Men, women, elderly and minors they were the group that had been arrested. The GN had to close the section to avoid the passage of cars, while the INM transferred the migrants Global focus on border transit (CAITF) located in the municipality of La Trinitaria, where they hope to be returned to their country of origin.

According to local media Chiapas NewspaperThese 70 people were part of a caravan of 100 migrants, which entered Mexico in the early hours of Thursday. However, with time and exhaustion, they decided to take a break around 9 a.m. in the town of Comalapa, where they were surprised by the Mexican authorities.

They were forced to board various vehicles to transfer them to CAITF, where the paramedics of the civil protection (PC), came to provide the necessary support and rule out any illness or unfavorable situation due to walking.

It should be remembered that the governments of Mexico and Guatemala recently adopted stricter measures against these caravans, under pressure from the United States, to prevent the influx of migrants to the North American country.

A statement from the INM indicated that a simultaneous institutional deployment in Tapachula, Chiapas, and Tecún Umán, San Marcos department, in which various relevant federal and state agencies have participated in the issue to protect the rights and integrity of migrants from different Central American countries, especially minors.

However, according to APThese large groups of travelers represent only a fraction of the regular daily flows of migrants, which often go relatively unnoticed.

However, Mexico has started limiting crossings on its southern border to only essential traveland increased operations to intercept migrants in the region, in particular families.

One of the main fears of migrants upon entering the country is confront those who traffic with themThey are simply looking for their money to make a promise to take them “to the other side” in conditions of overcrowding.

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