They rescue a Cuban migrant lost in the mountains of Mexico

Mexican authorities rescued three women, one of them Cuban, who had gotten lost in the mountains of Tijuana, on the border with the United States.

A Facebook post by local journalist Said Betanzos Arzola indicates that the three migrant women got lost in various areas of the Jacume ejido, in the border municipality of Tecate.

The head of the Municipal Directorate of Migrant Assistance (DMAM), Enrique Lucero Vázquez, explained that on February 11a woman of Cuban nationality He contacted the authorities to ask for help, as he had gotten lost in a mountainous area.

The name of the migrant has not been revealed.

The Tijuana City Council chaired by Mayor Montserrat Caballero Ramírez contacted the National Migration Institute (INM) and managed to find the woman.

The second case occurred on February 15 and involved two Peruvian women who had gotten lost in the Tecatense ejido, adjacent to Jacumba, San Diego.

However, both were located and rescued in US territory with the support of the Border Patrol.

Vázquez explained that many migrants desperate for not having an appointmentCBP One and human traffickers have found other points wherecross irregularly to the United States

The head of the DMAM said that the Jacume ejido has become one of the most used points for this, only after Sonoyta, Sonora, which borders Lukenville, Arizona.

The other two points Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, Texas; and Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass, Texas; They are surrounded by buoys in the Río Bravo and with the presence of elements of the National Guard from both countries, which has weakened the passage of undocumented immigrants through those areas.

Last December anotherCuban migrant family, made up of nine people, was rescued after getting lost in the same mountainous area of the town of Ejido Jacume, in the Mexican municipality of Tecate, in Baja California, during the journey to reach the United States border.

The authorities received a call from a family of nine members, including four women and a minor, who were traveling along that migratory route, but when advancing through a mountainous area that they did not know, they asked for support to be rescued.

Since last October, when the firstmigrant rescueAs of December 13, there were 31 people assisted in this area, in coordination with the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico and the United States Border Patrol (USBP).