- Mexican authorities discovered over 340 people including 103 unaccompanied minors.
- Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Ecuador were among the countries represented by the migrants.
- Everyone appeared to be unharmed, and the trailer had fans and ventilation ports.
Mexican authorities discovered over 340 people, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned truck trailer in the state of Veracruz.
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Ecuador were among the countries represented by the migrants. It is one of the most recent and significant discoveries of migrant children travelling through Mexico.
According to officials, everyone appeared to be unharmed, and the trailer had fans and ventilation ports.
The location of the driver is unknown.
Many undocumented migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America end up paying large sums of money to people smugglers to cross the US border.
Last year, 53 migrants were discovered dead in an abandoned truck trailer in Texas, the United States.
According to Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), 343 people were discovered in the vehicle on Sunday night.
They were discovered on a common route used by migrants to reach the US border.
According to officials, the migrants wore color-coded bracelets to identify themselves as clients of smugglers.
Plastic bottles and trash were strewn across the trailer’s floor, according to an image.
Mexican social services will care for the migrants until their legal status is determined.
According to border patrol data obtained by a channel in October, at least 853 migrants died in the previous year while attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border.
This made the fiscal year 2022 the deadliest year for migrants in US history, far exceeding the previous record of 546 migrant deaths in 2021.
During the same time period, the US Border Patrol apprehended a record 2.2 million migrants at the southwest border.
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