The authorities arrested 11 subjects, who are allegedly human traffickers for the transfer of a group of 47 migrants traveling in a caravan of 10 vehicles, the men were captured by the Security Forces in the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
The migrants are originally from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Cuba. Among them there are 36 adults (19 men and 17 women) and 11 minors, whose sex was not specified.
The Ministry of Public Security of Nuevo León reported through a statement that the events were recorded when Agents carried out prevention and surveillance tasks on a highway in the south of that state.
“State agents detected a caravan of 10 vehicles that were on the edge of the aforementioned road. When approaching to check if it was an emergency and offer support, the policemen realized that it was mostly people of foreign origin”, the agency specified in the note.
After As a result, the officials immediately detained the 11 people, two women and nine men, who were allegedly transporting the migrants and in addition to insuring the 11 vehicles.
Migrants were left in charge of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the minors of the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).
In Mexico, the Government has deployed almost 30,000 members of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern borders, where in the last three months they have intercepted 124,300 migrants, a 124% more than the same previous period, according to records of the Secretary of National Defense.
The transfer of migrants reflects the record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has intercepted more than 1,82 million people so far this fiscal year 2022, which began last October.
With information from EFE
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