Elements of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO), They found 71 migrants, including 19 minors, that they were held in a house in the Isthmus region, and where they detained two people, who were allegedly in charge of monitoring them.
Through a statement, the agency detailed that 32 people are from Ecuador, 25 from Venezuela, seven from Colombia, one from Chile, three from Honduras, one from El Salvador, one from Peru, and one from the African continent.“who were allegedly deprived of their liberty.”
The note explained that the discovery occurred as a result of various ministerial investigations led by the FGEO and noted that agents from the State Investigation Agency (AEI) participated in the operation in collaboration with agents from the Secretary of the Navy (Semar), Police State and the National Guard (GN).
The FGEO indicated that the operation was carried out this Thursday, at a home located in the Gustavo Pineda de la Cruz neighborhood (neighborhood), in the municipality of Juchitán de Zaragoza.
After the rescue of the migrants, the agents requested the support of the National Migration Institute (INM) for their transfer, their protection and to be evaluated in order to determine their health status.
During the actions, two people were arrested, a 36-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, “both of foreign origin, who were presumably in charge of taking care of the migrants y “made telephone calls to his relatives in which they demanded payment of a large sum of money as payment for his ransom.”.
The Prosecutor’s Office added that the two detainees were presented before the corresponding authority to determine their legal situation.
Since October 2018, and despite the tightening of surveillance on Mexico’s southern border, thousands of migrants from Central and South America, the Caribbean and countries in Africa and China enter Mexican territory irregularly with the aim of reaching USA.
Human traffickers look for routes for foreigners who sometimes park in the southern states of the country. such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and Oaxaca, in addition to those in the north, which border the United States, one of the last stops on their journey.
In their movement, migrants use dangerous transfers or stays to clandestinely cross Mexico, routes for which they pay thousands of dollars to human traffickers.
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