Mexican authorities have rescued 123 migrants from South and Central America – including 34 children – after they were found trapped in a locked trailer.
The mass of human cargo was discovered on Wednesday in Matehuala, a city in the central state of San Luis Potosi after a local resident heard cries for help coming from the container, Mexico’s immigration agency said.
Most of the rescued migrants came from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador, as well as four from Ecuador and one Cuban, officials said.
They were given food and medical assistance, and provided with temporary housing, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration.
Officials did not say how the migrants got stuck in the trailer or where they were going, but such groups of migrants fleeing crime and poverty in their homelands usually hope to make it to the US.
Mexican officials rescued 123 migrants from a locked trailer in the town of Matehuala on Wednesday. The National Migration Institute of Migrants, among them 34 children, was heard by a local resident crying for help in the trailer. National Migration Institute Migrants are given food and medical assistance and offered shelter. National Migration Institute
The same day police in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, arrested three alleged human traffickers – two of them as young as 16 – after finding 11 Guatemalan migrants trapped in a house, according to the Chihuahua state security department.
The rescue of the twin migrants in Mexico comes as a 7,000-person caravan of asylum seekers – the largest in a year – is making its way through southern Mexico to the US border.
On Wednesday, some 3,000 migrants blocked a highway near the southern town of Huixtla in Chiapas, saying they feared they would be attacked by groups demanding payment for safe passage.
The migrants’ protests continued through Thursday in hopes of pressuring Mexican authorities to give them temporary papers that would allow them to travel to the US border.
About 3,000 migrants blocked a highway near the southern city of Huixtla, Mexico, to press the government to give them documents allowing them to travel to the US border. AP
US Customs and Border Protection authorities have detained more than 2.2 million immigrants along the southern border since October 2022.
The steady influx of asylum seekers has fueled an immigrant crisis in major cities like New York City and Chicago, prompting local leaders to call on the Biden Administration to provide additional federal resources to help new immigrants.
With Postal wire
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