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Tuesday 7 March 2023 - 13:21
103 Children Among Hundreds Found in Abandoned Truck in Mexico
Story Code : 1045374
The people were in good health and it was unclear why the driver fled, authorities said.
Most of the children were from Guatemala. Migrants who make it to the US frequently pay smugglers to bring their children afterwards.
The institute said the adults were mainly from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador.
The children will be put into the custody of Veracruz’s family services system while the others will be processed to determine their legal status in Mexico, according to INM.
People have been found dead inside abandoned freight containers in the past.
The conditions in the container illustrated the increasing sophistication of smugglers. The trailer had fans and ventilation ports cut in the roof and the people wore color-coded bracelets, apparently to identify them as smugglers’ clients.
Trucks are one of the most dangerous methods used by people smugglers to transport undocumented migrants through Mexico to the US.
Last June, more than 50 people died after they were abandoned in a scorching hot tractor-trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas.
In December 2021, 56 US-bound people from Central America were killed and dozens injured when the truck they were travelling in overturned in southern Mexico.
Movement across the US-Mexico border reached record levels in 2022 with US Border Patrol documenting 2,378,944 “encounters” in the region.
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