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Authorities found 229 migrants, including 17 minors and dehydrated individuals, locked in a stolen truck in Veracruz as smuggling routes see a slow rise in activity.
- On Monday, José Manuel Pozos, Veracruz's deputy government secretary, said Mexican authorities found 229 migrants locked inside a truck reported stolen in Veracruz.
- Recent reports show migration north is slowly picking up this year, with smugglers commonly packing migrants into trucks or modified trailers to evade authorities.
- In the afternoon the migrants were loaded onto state police buses; most were from Central America, including 17 minors and dehydrated migrants, usually handed to Mexico's national immigration agency.
- From 2022 to 2024 Mexican authorities greatly increased seizures of smuggling vehicles, and shelters in southern Mexico say they have again begun taking Central American migrants this year.
- Veracruz has long been a corridor where cartels prey on migrants, using fake ambulances and modified trailers with hidden compartments that heighten the risk of death.
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Mexico City, 23 Mar (EFE).- Federal and state authorities found 229 migrants, including 17 minors, inside the box of a trailer that was sheltered in a vehicle depot where violations are carried out, in the city of Xalapa, capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. According to local media reports, the finding occurred after the vehicle was towed to that place, and the local workers heard the screams of the people inside the box. In statements to …
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A total of 229 Central American migrants were found inside a triler with alleged reports of theft, in Xalapa, Veracruz.
Elements of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) in Veracruz rescued on Monday at least 229 migrants who were inside an abandoned trailer. People, who were locked up and crowded inside the abandoned trailer in the town of La Rinconada, Emiliano Zapata municipality, said in the beginning to be native mostly to Guatemala and El Salvador. Finding migrants in Veracruz corralón At the time of their rescue, men, women and older adults from Central Am…
Xalapa, Ver. More than 200 migrants were rescued by state and federal authorities, after they were detected inside a trailer that was sheltered in a pen in the city of Xalapa, capital city of the state of Veracruz. According to the information available so far, the unit would have been towed to the site, located in the Revolution colony, and it was the local workers who heard the screams of the people inside the vehicle. Some of the migrants sho…
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