- 103 unaccompanied minors, 212 adults, and 28 more people in various family nuclei were traveling in the transport
- The unit was conditioned with a double floor of metallic structure, fans anchored in the lower part and vents in the ceiling.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior, in coordination with the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), rescued last night 343 foreign migrants in a box from a trailer that was abandoned on the Cosamaloapan-La Tinaja highway, Veracruz.
There are 103 unaccompanied minors, mostly from Guatemala. There were also 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador, as well as 28 more migrants, who make up several families from Guatemala and El Salvador.
The trailer was located on the Cosamaloapan-La Tinaja highway without a driver, but the presence of people was detected inside the box, which had a double floor of metal structures, as well as fans anchored in the lower part and vents in the ceiling.
Foreign migrants, meanwhile, wore colored bracelets as a means of identification.
Unaccompanied minors, such as those who make up the family nuclei, will remain under the guardianship of the state’s System for the Integral Development of the Family (SDIF), and the elderly will initiate the administrative procedure to define their legal situation in national territory.
The INM endorses its commitment to safe, orderly, and regular migration, with respect for and safeguarding the rights of those who enter and transit through national territory.