The National Civil Police of Guatemala detains Cuban immigrants

National Civil Police (PNC) from Guatemala – announced the arrest of an unknown number of Cuban immigrants in the framework of various operations in the Chiquimola region, Near the border with Mexico.

In total, during the corresponding week from August 21 to 27, 597 illegal immigrants were identified, in addition to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Senegal, Afghanistan, China and Panama, according to a report it published. Guatemalan News Agency (AGN).

The migrants were placed in the hands of the Guatemalan Immigration Institute (IGM) and transferred to different jurisdictions, where they would be treated and prosecuted for entering this country illegally. Until August 21, this state institution served 5,900 people in different parts of the Central American country.

The first operation by the authorities took place “at km 227 of the Inter-American Highway, Esquipulas, Chiquimola. At this point, agents from the Department of Ports, Airports and Border Posts (Dipafront) confirmed the location of 22 people from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador ” AGN.

While the second procedure took place at km 228 of the same road and made it possible to find 96 people, according to the same source:

• 76 from Venezuela
• 2 from Colombia
• 6 from China
• 6 from Senegal
• 2 from Afghanistan
• 2 from Ecuador
• 1 from Cuba
• Panamanian

Also, on 17th and 7th Streets in District 1 Street of the capital, the Palestinian National Council arrested 10 illegal immigrants from Venezuela. newly The expulsion of 10 Cuban citizens who were in an illegal situation in the Central American country In transit to the United States. The authorities indicated on that occasion that “after providing them with humanitarian and medical assistance at CAMIEX of the Guatemalan Institute of Migration, 25 migrants (6 from Ecuador, 9 from Venezuela and 10 from Cuba) were expelled.”

Also on August 25th A total of 128 irregular migrants, including an unspecified number of Cubans, were arrested by the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC). The immigrants, including people from Venezuela, Colombia, Senegal, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, China and Panama, were arrested in operations carried out on 227 and 228 kilometers of the Inter-American Highway, at the borders of Agua Caliente, Esquipulas and Chiquimula and on 17th and 7th Streets from District 1 from the capital.

Generally Cubans top the list of expulsions at the border with Guatemala So far this year, according to the authorities of the Central American country.

“Since January to date, 9,019 foreigners, who were sent to the Agua Caliente Integrated Border Control Center, located on the border with Honduras in the province of Chiquimula, have been expelled by the National Civil Police, who were stationed at various points of the Guatemalan Migration Institute,” said the Guatemalan Migration Institute. In a recent statement

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