INM detained 95 Central American migrants in Monterrey who tried to cross Mexico by plane

On the afternoon of this March 19, Migration’s national institute (INM) reported that it detained 95 migrants in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, who tried to cross Mexico irregularly on a plane.

According to the official gazette, it was about 70 Hondurans, 14 Guatemalans, six salvadorans and five cuban, who were traveling as tourists on two commercial flights, one from Villahermosa, Tabasco, and another from Cancun, Quintana Roo.

Of the 95 foreigners, eight are unaccompanied minors (four from Honduras, three from El Salvador and one from Guatemala) and were in the custody of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) of the entity, a body that will also provide care and accommodation to 27 family nuclei made up of 72 migrants.

The 15 adults (three women and 12 men) were transferred to a state immigration station to initiate the corresponding administrative procedure that allows the return to their respective countries of origin.

Central American migrants traveled in two commercial planes.

These arrests occurred a day after the deployment of hundreds of immigration agents and members of the army and the National Guard (GN) on the southern border of Mexico to stop migrant smuggling, which will focus on detecting groups of families with minors who have entered irregularly.

The military and members of the INM carried out an operation in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, after the government announced that it will limit non-essential crossings from Guatemala to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to immigration authorities, human traffickers suggest that Central Americans travel with minors to facilitate entry to Mexico and the United States, which since Joe Biden took office, eliminated some of the anti-immigration measures imposed by his predecessor.

329 migrants were detained in Chiapas.

The INM reported that Between January 1 and March 18, 2021, at least 4,180 migrant minors entered the country without legal authorization. In the first three months of 2020, 5,240 people were detected, and in the same period of 2019 there were more than 8,800.

So strong has been the deployment to stop the passage of migrants seeking to enter Mexico to stay or cross into the United States, that Mexican authorities have deployed operations along the most important migratory crossing points in the country, with what they have stopped the access of several people.

For example, this Thursday, March 18, a group of 329 Central American migrants were found in Chiapas, a state that borders Guatemala. They were traveling in overcrowded conditions in the box of three torton trucks.

Migrants bound for the United States have increased due to Joe Biden’s policies.

In the cargo compartment of a first truck they were identified 115 foreign people; In a second, 111, and in the third 103.

Of them, 114 are unaccompanied girls and boys, five people in the family nucleus and 210 more adult women and men, the majority from Guatemala and the rest from Honduras, who could not verify their status of regular stay in Mexico.

Members of the Grupo Beta Tuxtla, of the INM, provided water and food to unaccompanied migrant minors and people in the family nucleus, to then be under the guardianship of the DIF in the entity, institution that will provide care and accommodation.

One of the events that caused the flow of migrants to the United States to increase were Joe Biden’s statements, since since he assumed the presidency there has been a marked increase in the number of immigrants detained by US border agents.

And given the possible increase in this crisis, on March 17 he made a call to people who seek to enter his country: “Do not come”.