Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) said Mexican authorities on January 26 stopped a truck carrying nearly 70 migrants from Guatemala, most of them unaccompanied minors.
The INM stated that federal agents discovered the truck at a checkpoint in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, bordering Mexico. border with the US.
On the truck were a total of 67 migrants from Guatemala, including 57 minors, mostly boys between the ages of 14 and 17. The group also included a mother traveling with her daughter, all of whom did not hold legal migration permits.
The truck driver has been taken to the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, while the unaccompanied children will be handed over to state authorities.
In early January, Mexican immigration authorities found three unaccompanied Salvadoran children stranded on a small island in the Rio Grande, halfway between the US-Mexico border.
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According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), December 2022 saw the number of border arrests near a record, although the number dropped sharply in January following restrictions. new application by US President Joe Biden since January 5.
Under the new program, up to 30,000 yen immigrant from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela can enter the US every month and the US can expulsion to Mexico an equal number of illegal migrants from the four countries mentioned above.
Recent CBP data shows that the new program has reduced the number of people by 97% illegal border crossing entered the US from these four countries.
Nguyen Hang (VNA/Vietnam+)
