They locate 133 migrants crowded into a trailer in Mexico: there are already almost 500 in just two weeks

A total of 133 migrants from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, including 15 unaccompanied minors, were found crowded in the refrigerated box of a trailer in the state of San Luis Potosí, in central Mexico, the National Institute of Migration (INM).

Of the total number of migrants, 127 come from Guatemala;

four from Nicaragua and two from Honduras.

were traveling in the vehicle ,

as well as 15 unaccompanied minors and 10 people in a family nucleus.

The INM specified in a statement that minutes before 4:00 am on Tuesday, INM agents located the truck on state highway 75D, in the Río Verde-San Luis Potosí section.

According to data from the institute, so far in April,

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Added to this last case is the finding of 123 migrants on a bus in the municipality of Palmar de Bravo, Puebla;

61 in the box of a trailer in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca;

and 167 crammed into a truck in the municipality of Cuautlancingo, Puebla.

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For its part, the US Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) assured this Tuesday that the additional inspections of cargo transport on the Texas-Mexico border ordered by the state governor are “unnecessary”. , Greg Abbott, since last week, after the announcement of the end of Title 42.

CBP noted that trucks are facing

at some border crossings exceeding five hours, with a 60% reduction in commercial traffic.

The federal agency indicated that the long wait times and subsequent interruptions in the supply chain are not due to CBP detection activities but to “additional and unnecessary inspections carried out by the Texas Department of Public Safety at the direction of the Governor of Texas. ”.

Republican Abbott's order "is generating significant impacts on local supply chains that will affect consumers and businesses nationwide," criticized the CBP.

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Cramped trips inside trucks or trailers are one of the most dangerous ways migrants use to clandestinely cross Mexico into the US, something for which they pay smugglers thousands of dollars.

Under this modality, a tragic accident was recorded on December 9, when a trailer overturned on the highway from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in Chiapas, in which 56 migrants died.

More than 160 foreigners were traveling hidden in the vehicle, most of them from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

The INM pointed out this Tuesday that the adults were taken to their offices to start the immigration process that defines their legal status in Mexico, while the foreign family nuclei remained under the tutelage of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) of the state. .

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The region is experiencing a

to the United States.

CBP detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30.

While 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.

With information from Eph.