Mexican authorities found 175 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas, the National Migration Institute said Friday, in the latest mass human smuggling incident to be detected in the country. |Reuters
Images released by the institute showed people standing closely together inside the truck before descending one by one with the help of INM agents.
Most of the migrants were from Guatemala, with others from Ecuador, El Salvador, and Honduras. One person was from the Dominican Republic and one from Pakistan.Mexico finds over 50 unaccompanied kids from Guatemala in migrant truck Migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Latin America frequently pay smugglers in an attempt to pass through Mexico clandestinely on their route to the United States. One group detected this year included more than 300 people in a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz.
US Homeland Security official Blas Nunez-Neto said last week that migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped 70% since the end of COVID-era border restrictions known as Title 42 on May 11. Still, the number of US-bound migrants crossing the dangerous jungle between Panama and Colombia has soared this year, Panamanian data shows, underscoring the challenge the United States faces as it seeks to curb surging migration.Your subscription has been successful.
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