24 Cuban migrants detained in a motel near Mexico City

Mexican authorities detained 24 Cuban immigrants who were hiding in a hotel in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo state.

According to a media publication Hidalgo News and the Primera Plana portal in Facebook, the operation was carried out on Thursday after the Police received a 911 call to send support to a motel called Los Pinos.

Upon arriving at the scene, the agents found 24 Cubans who were in an irregular situation in the country.

The migrants were taken to the facilities of the National Migration Institute in the city of Pachuca de Soto, in the same state of Hidalgo, a little less than two hours from Mexico City, the country's capital.

The Cuban group was made up of 16 men and eight women, who entered the country irregularly, and probably the stay at the hotel was part of their journey to the United States border.

Mexico restarted on October 14 deportation flights to the island, in the midst of a new migratory wave of Cubans arriving en masse on Mexican soil. That day 138 migrants were repatriated.

The deportation flights had been stopped since last March 3, but at the beginning of October it was known that Mexico would ask Cuba and four other countries in the region to accept deportation flights for their nationals, as a way to alleviate a migration crisis. which reveals an increase in the number of people arriving daily at the Mexican border with the United States.

In Mexico, thousands of Cubans are in an irregular situation as part of their migratory journey to the United States and are trying to flee collapsed cities like Tapachula through illegal routes and at the mercy of human traffickers.