MEXICOCITY – Mexican safety officers detained greater than 200 principally Guatemalan migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who had been ready to be smuggled northward, the federal government mentioned on Sunday.
Mexico’s Nationwide Migration Institute (INM) mentioned there have been 225 migrants found in a single day in a warehouse in Jilotepec within the state of Mexico, 194 of whom had been Guatemalans. There have been additionally 14 Hondurans, 9 Nicaraguans, 5 Cubans and three El Salvadorans, the INM mentioned.
The federal government of the state of Mexico, which surrounds most of Mexico Metropolis, mentioned in a separate assertion that 248 migrants had been discovered within the warehouse. An INM spokesperson couldn't instantly clarify the discrepancy between the 2 figures.
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