The caravan of Central American mothers of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement (MMM) found two of their migrant children who were missing in Mexican territory, as revealed this Friday by the National Migration Institute (INM).
The women located the two migrants during their visit to Mexico, who were detained in a prison in Veracruz, in the southeast of the country, and in Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States, according to a letter received by Francisco Garduño, head of the INM, of the president of the MMM, Talía Carmen Vázquez.
“The caravan fulfilled its primary objective, which is the meeting between located parents and children, exceeding the expected expectations, by achieving release two migrants who were deprived of their liberty in prisons in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and Reynosa, Tamaulipas”, reads a fragment of the text.
The group of almost 50 people entered Mexico on May 1 through Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, from where they also traveled to Veracruz, Tabasco and the capital to ask the Mexican authorities for progress on the complaints they filed for their disappearances.
After two years interrupted by the pandemic, this is the sixteenth caravan of the mothers, who have found more than 370 people with these events.
“Upon arrival in Mexico, the INM of the Ministry of the Interior provided migratory documents so that the members of the caravan could travel through 180 days the migrant routes, shelters, prisons and cemeteries, in order to locate their relatives. military”, asserted the dependency.
The head of the immigration agency met with the women on 10 of May to “expand the ways and processes of searching for their loved ones and guarantee family reunification.”
“One of the commitments was to establish communication and coordination with law enforcement agencies for assisted return, once they are released from detention centers in the case of those who may be deprived of their freedom. This allowed the reunion between mothers and the two migrant children”, said the INM.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow towards the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended on 30 of September.
The march of the mothers also reflects the crisis of missing persons in Mexico, which this month exceeded the historical figure of over 100,000 persons not located, according to official government data.
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