Mexico will set up 17 shelters to serve migrant children in the south of the country

Increase in number of migrant minors arriving in Mexico 1:12

(CNN Spanish) -

The National Migration Institute (INM) reported this Tuesday that it will open 17 temporary shelters.

This, so that authorities of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) at the municipal level in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco can provide care and assistance to migrant girls, boys and adolescents with irregular stay conditions who enter through the southern border. from Mexico.

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The immigration agency also reported that it will cede the administration of nine properties of the INM in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche, to the national and municipal DIF.

With information from Fidel Gutié

Immigration