Agents arrest 11 smugglers for transporting migrants in northern Mexico

Monterrey (Mexico), September 29 (EFE). – To transport a group of 47 illegal immigrants who were traveling in a 10-car convoy, which was trying to reach the Mexico-US border, 11 individuals, allegedly human smugglers, were arrested last Thursday by security forces in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico.

The immigrants are originally from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Cuba. They include 36 adults (19 men and 17 women) and 11 minors whose gender has not been specified.

In a statement, the Nuevo Leon Public Security Secretariat said the events were recorded when agents were performing prevention and surveillance missions on a highway in the south of that state.

“State agents revealed that a convoy of 10 cars was on the edge of the said road. When approaching to check if it was an emergency and provide support, the police realized that most of them were of overseas origin,” the agency detailed in the memo.

Subsequently, agents immediately arrested 11 people, 2 women and 9 men, allegedly transporting migrants, and also secured 10 vehicles.

Immigrants were left in charge of the National Institute for Migration (INM) and minors from the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).

In Mexico, the government has deployed nearly 30,000 members of the armed forces to the northern and southern borders, where over the past three months it has intercepted 124,300 immigrants, an increase of 115% over the same period in the previous period, according to State Department records. National Defense.

The transfer of immigrants mirrors the record flow of immigration into the United States, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has intercepted more than 1.82 million people so far in the 2022 fiscal year, which began last October. EFE

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