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Cuban migrants detained while traveling on a bus in Mexico

The detained people were transferred to Mérida to define, in an immigration office, their status in the country.

Migrantes detenidos en Yucatán © X/INAMI_mx
Migrants detained in YucatánPhoto © X/INAMI_mx

HeNational Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) Last Tuesday, it detained 150 migrants of eight nationalities, including Cubans, who were traveling through the country irregularly.

The migrants were intercepted by elements of the Mexican police, in two buses in the state of Yucatán, in the south of the country.

Among the nationalities of the detainees are, in addition to Cubans, Brazilians, Dominicans, Guatemalans and Hondurans. In addition to nationals from Jordan, Pakistan, and India.

In the group there are 109 single adults, divided into 30 women and 79 men, in addition to10 family units made up of 41 people, among themeleven unaccompanied minors, specifies the statement published by the INM.

INM Statement

At the time of announcing this fact, the Mexican migration agents had transferred these people to Mérida, the capital of the Yucatecan state, and were carrying out the Migratory Administrative Procedure (PAM), through which the immigration status of the persons will be determined. detained people.

To non-Spanish speakers, they specified that they were explained through electronic translation devices, the following procedures to determine their situation in Mexico.

Migration remains unstoppable despite thecontinuous calls and actions that various countries in the region have taken, especially those of Mexico and the United States, the main transit and destination places, respectively, for those fleeing the authoritarian governments that have several countries plunged into deep economic crises.

For example,The city of Tapachula on the border of Mexico with Guatemala has become an impenetrable bottleneck for thousands of Cubans who have been stranded in that town for months.

Unable to continue heading to the United States and with appointments through the platformCBP One delayed, many have chosen to seek political refuge from theMexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR), but they have not obtained answers about their immigration procedures either.

At the end of JanuaryA total of 22 migrants of Cuban origin, seven women and 15 men, all adults, were found inside a home in the municipality of Tultepec, in the State of Mexico (Edomex)., as revealed on social networks by the Attorney General's Office.

It also emerged that only in the month of January,The INM detained a total of 163 undocumented Cuban immigrants in the state of Puebla.

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