A total of 140 migrants, mostly Central Americans, including four minors, were rescued this Wednesday from a house in Ciudad Juárez, in Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States, where they were
crammed into wooden rooms.
Most of the migrants come from
Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
The head of the Municipal Public Security Secretary, Raúl Ávila, informed the Efe news agency that the report reached the Attorney General's Office (FGR) after receiving an alert from the Guatemalan embassy about the kidnapping of indigenous people. from that country.
In addition, the FGR alerted the local authorities, who also received an emergency call to 911 in which they asked for help to rescue people who were
locked in two rooms.
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The official said that several dozen people
"were in a room of five square meters, in subhuman conditions.
With the heat of this city and, as they were overcrowded, they were dehydrating. The place was bursting."
Of the total number of rescued migrants, 123 were handed over to the National Migration Institute (INM) to define their legal stay in Mexico, four minors were referred to the Integral System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) and 13 people to Grupo Beta -agentes that orient and assist migrants - since they have verified their legal stay in the country.
Back to Guatemala
One of the freed foreigners was Isabel Pinzón, originally from Santa Rosa, Guatemala, who four months ago left her country in search of the American dream.
"The situation is tough when crossing, the authorities treat us as if we were doing something wrong. One goes very hungry on the way," he said.
The man said that he
had been locked up in that house for 10 days
and that now that he has regained his freedom he
wants to return to his country with his wife and children.
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"My family told me to feel like it when I told them that I wanted to go to the United States, but the truth is now I want them to return to my country, I can work there, there is little but it is better," he concluded.
An average of
54 migrants are kidnapped in Mexico every day,
who are detained by criminal groups at night, when there are no witnesses, according to reports from the National Human Rights Commission.
In addition, they are caught and held to work as
slaves, prostitute themselves
or subject them to ill-treatment.
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Since October 2018, and despite the tightening of surveillance on the southern border of Mexico, thousands of migrants from Central America, Haiti and Cuba have entered Mexican territory with the aim of reaching the United States.
Human smugglers look for routes for foreigners and, on occasions, they park in the southern and central states of the country, as well as those in the north, which border the United States, such as Chihuahua.
With information from Efe.