A group of Cuban immigrants, whose number was not specified and who were transported in trucks in overcrowded conditions by roads of Mexicowere rescued this Sunday in two operations carried out by members of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and other agencies.
The Mexican authorities rescued, in two simultaneous events, 303 foreign migrants that were transferred “in the dry boxes of a torton-type cargo truck and a tractor-trailer,” reported the INM in a release.
According to the official note, the first case occurred at kilometer 150 of the Orizaba-Puebla highway, when immigration authorities stopped a Thorton-type truck that was accompanied by a white van.
Inside the first vehicle were found 107 foreigners from Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaraguawho could not prove their regular stay in Mexican territory. The INM did not specify the number of Cubans traveling in the truck.
The group was made up of 37 adults and 20 unaccompanied minors, in addition to 21 families made up of 50 other people.
The six individuals who were transporting the foreign migrants in the truck and those who were guarding them in the truck were detained and turned over to the Attorney General’s Office together with the vehicles.
In the second immigration inspection carried out this Sunday, the immigration authorities detected 196 foreigners in a tractor-trailer that it was badly parked on a road near Fortín de las Flores, in the state of Veracruz. None of the people could prove his regular stay in the country.
The INM specified that, of this group, five adults came from Guatemala and another five from India. Another 19 were unaccompanied girls, boys and adolescents and the remaining 167 were part of 70 family nuclei; however, the entity did not detail the nationality of the minors and the rescued families.
The statement indicated that in this second operation “no people were detained” and “the tractor-trailer was made available to the corresponding federal authorities.”
In both cases, the unaccompanied minors and the nuclear families “were channeled to the System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (DIF),” while the adults were taken to INM offices to carry out the corresponding immigration procedures.
Although the flow of Cubans across the Mexican border towards the United States remains at relatively low levels since last January, when the humanitarian parole programirregular entries continue.
In May, the entry of 2,794 Cubans through the Mexican border was registered, an increase of 53% over the previous month, according to statistics from the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The authorities have warned that the deportations of Cubans will continue for people who do not have a legal basis to remain in the country.
From last October 1 -when FY2023 began- until the end of June, 153,576 Cuban immigrants had reached US territory, 119,143 of them through the border with Mexico.
