They find more than 160 migrants abandoned in a warehouse in Mexico without water or food

Agents from the National Migration Institute (INM) and the National Guard of Mexico found 162 abandoned Central American migrants, including 23 unaccompanied minors, in the municipality of Camargo, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.

In a statement, the INM reported this Sunday that the discovery occurred in a winery located in the community of Santa Anita.

In addition, he explained that most of the people, originally from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,

had been without food or water for five days

, and had symptoms of dehydration and malnutrition.

Dozens of migrants are rescued from a warehouse in Santa Anita, Tamaulipas.INM

Of the total, 101 people traveled in family nuclei and 23 were unaccompanied minors.

Some of the migrants suffered nervous breakdowns when immigration authorities arrived and several requested help to return to their country of origin, according to the statement.

[An avalanche of migrants tries to enter through a border crossing in California after a decision of a federal judge]

“We have five days without eating.

They have abandoned us!

We thank God they came.

I just want to be taken out of this place.

We can't even go out to the corner, we are drinking water from the well.

We have been drinking dirty water for days, "one of the migrants who was rescued this Saturday said between sobs, through a video released by the authorities on Twitter.

The finding comes when Mexico has dissolved with the use of force four migrant caravans in just one week in the Mexican municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.

Although all of them advanced tens of kilometers, Mexican agents dismantled them with blows and shoves, provoking the condemnation of the United Nations Organization and numerous groups for the defense of migrants.

Despite the tightening of surveillance on the southern border of Mexico,

thousands of migrants from Central America, Cuba and Haiti enter Mexican territory

with the aim of reaching the United States.

Human traffickers seek routes for foreigners and sometimes transit in the southeastern states of the country such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and Oaxaca.

In addition to those from the north such as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States, one of the last stops on your journey to the United States.

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The Tamaulipas border with the United States has been the scene of recent violent events, such as the discovery on January 22 of 19 charred bodies in a truck in the town of Santa Anita, in the municipality of Camargo, of which 16 were Guatemalan migrants.

While on June 19 attacks were recorded in various neighborhoods of the border city of Reynosa, in a fight between groups belonging to the Gulf Cartel, which left 19 people dead, 15 civilians and 4 who were suspected criminals.

With information from EFE.