Authorities find 79 migrants crowded into a hotel in central Mexico

The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico rescued on Sunday night 79 migrants of various nationalities who had been crowded into rooms of a hotel located in the State of Mexico.

Among the migrants there were 74 adults, 65 of them from Guatemala, seven from El Salvador, one from Honduras and one from Ecuador.

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The INM, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, reported that the migrants were found "in overcrowded conditions in hotel rooms" located in the State of Mexico, neighboring the capital.

The finding was the result of "immigration verification tasks" in coordination with agents from the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena), the National Guard (GN) and security agencies.

Migrants rescued from the hotel in Mexico. INM

In addition, “a woman and a man, each with their minor daughter and son, respectively, and an unaccompanied child” were found, all of Guatemalan nationality.

Despite the tightening of surveillance on Mexico's southern border, thousands of migrants from Central America, but also from Cuba, Haiti and various South American, African and Asian countries enter Mexican territory with the aim of reaching the United States.

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Human traffickers look for routes for foreigners and sometimes station themselves in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla and the State of Mexico as an intermediate stop on their journey to the United States.

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The region is experiencing a record flow of migrants to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30th.

Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country's Ministry of the Interior.

Additionally, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) received a record 131,448 refugee applications in 2021. Of these petitioners, more than 51,000 are Haitians.