The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico reported on Wednesday about two rescues in which 88 migrants from various nations were found, including several Cubans.
According to the statement, the emigrants received a medical check-up, protective measures, and the corresponding migratory administrative procedures were started.
The first rescue took place in the state of Veracruz, where 63 people were found in an abandoned tractor-trailer on the road between La Tinaja and Cosoleacaque.
Of them, 48 are single adults: 24 from Guatemala, one from Honduras, 20 from Bangladesh, one from India, one from Nicaragua, and one from Cuba, as indicated by the INM.
The group also included three family units: one composed of four individuals of Cuban nationality, another of three individuals from Guatemala, and the last one of three individuals from Honduras. In addition, there are five unaccompanied minors of Guatemalan nationality, the source pointed out.
Adults traveling alone were transferred to the Acayucan Immigration Station, while family units and unaccompanied minors were relocated to the South America Social Assistance Center shelter in the municipality of Soconusco, Veracruz, to receive protection measures and determine their rights restoration plan.
The source cited reported that, in a second operation, the INM assisted 25 migrants rescued by the Secretariat of the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) after being abandoned in a small boat in the waters of Boca Barra, in the municipality of San Francisco del Mar, Oaxaca.
This second group was composed of 19 single adults, coming from Cuba (9), El Salvador (1), Nicaragua (1), Ecuador (4), Guatemala (1), and Jordan (3); in addition to two family units of Cuban origin, consisting of six members.
INM pointed out that the adults were transferred to the temporary residence in Oaxaca, so that their immigration status can be resolved, while the family units were placed in the Casa Pato shelter, part of the state's Integral Family Development System (DIF).
More than 10,400 Cubans have been detained by Mexican immigration authorities during the first quarter of the current year, according to figures from the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior of Mexico.
With that figure, 10,464 to be exact, the Caribbean island ranks ninth among the countries with the most people detained on Mexican territory.
In total, Mexican authorities have detected 359,697 "individuals in irregular migratory situations" between January and March 2024, an increase of 199.68% compared to the 120,029 in the same period of 2023, as reported by the EFE agency.
However, this situation does not stop. Last Tuesday, a caravan of hundreds of migrants left the city of Tapachula, on Mexico's southern border, after undocumented individuals failed to resolve their regularization procedures.
Despite the recent meeting between the presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, migrants claim that the situation in that border area is unsustainable and therefore they would embark on a journey to Mexico City, the EFE agency reported.
The group is mainly composed of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Central America, Brazil, and Colombia. They set out walking from Tapachula, equipped with strollers and backpacks, as indicated in the report.
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