2024-01-02 22:14:42
Thirty one “foreigners” were kidnapped on Saturday in northern Mexico when they were traveling by bus to a United States border town, a regional security spokesperson announced Tuesday, January 2.
The driver reported that the bus “had been intercepted by five vehicles” and “31 of the 36 passengers” were kidnapped, Tamaulipas state security spokesman Jorge Cuellar told the Milenio news channel.
The people kidnapped “are foreign” and the other five travelers are Mexicans, he added. The bus left from Monterrey, an industrial city in the north, and had its final destination in Matamoros, a border town from where migrants try to cross to Brownsville, Texas.
The most dangerous land migration route in the world
Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said during his daily press conference that the search began on Saturday. Between October 2022 and September 2023, more than 2.4 million land migrant interceptions, a record, were recorded in the United States, according to the US Border Patrol.
The border between the United States and Mexico has become “the most dangerous land migration route in the world”with 686 dead or missing, according to a September report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Mexico City Christmas week to meet with President Lopez Obrador on the topic of migration between the two countries. The Mexican president mentioned after the meeting “important agreements” without further detail.
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