MONTERREY, Mexico. Some 48 migrants from a group of 50 abducted a few days ago while traveling on a passenger bus in northern Mexico received humanitarian business cards (TVRH) after the odyssey, Mexico’s National Institute for Migration (INM) said this Friday.
On Tuesday, it was announced that 50 migrants and two drivers had been kidnapped, and that a bus from Tapachula, Chiapas, was intercepted by hooded gunmen who took them to a farm in the municipality of the neighboring state of Nuevo León. where they were kept for almost two days.
On Thursday, Mexican authorities said they had rescued 49 migrants from Venezuela, Honduras, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and El Salvador. and they were handed over to the INM delegation in San Luis Potosí (north-central state of Mexico).
Among the 49 migrants, there were 23 men, 15 women, six boys and five girls, explained Luis Crecencio Sandoval, Minister of National Defense, who specified that seven were from Venezuela, 19 from Honduras, two from Brazil, one from Cuba and 14 from Haiti. , and six from El Salvador.
On Friday, INM said in a statement that documents had been delivered to migrants and indicated that The group of 48 card recipients includes 17 adults who traveled alone and 31 others who were part of families with minors.
“When they were provided to INM on Thursday afternoon and evening by the Attorney General of the states of Nuevo Leon and San Luis Potosi, they proceeded to issue migration documents,” INM clarifies.
In addition, he specified that Adults and minors traveling in a family cell were under the protection and guardianship of the authorities. System of Integrated Development of the Family (CFA) of the state.
The Matehuala area in San Luis Potosi has raised concerns from the Mexican government over the presence of kidnapping gangs that have attacked migrants transiting the country to the United States.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged on Wednesday that this latest development may be related to the abduction of 121 migrants that took place in early April in the same region.
While the head of national defense warned on Thursday of the deployment of 650 agents, including the army and national guard, who They continue to look for other migrants or abductees.
This fact reflects the region’s unprecedented migration flow, with more than 2.76 million undocumented people intercepted by the United States at the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2022.
Source: La Opinion
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