In Mexico, police in the state of Sonora, bordering the United States, on Saturday issued 113 migrants of different nationalities who were detained by criminals, announced the public prosecutor’s office of Sonora.
The thousands of migrants who try to flee violence and poverty to reach the United States risk kidnapping by criminal groups who then exploit them.
Saturday’s operation, in the municipality of San Luis Rio Colorado, bordering the US state of Arizona, was the result of an investigation carried out on Friday to try to find 10 Colombian citizens suspected of being kidnapped.
Police greeted with applause
Among those released were citizens of “El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, United States, India, Peru, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil and Afghanistan,” the prosecution said on its official Facebook page.
The police were greeted by the detained migrants “with applause, blessings and prayers”, added the prosecution. The operation also resulted in the arrest of five criminals, two of whom were Honduran nationals.
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Last month, a group of 63 migrants originating from various Latin American countries had been issued by the police in the same region.
Crossing attempts are on the rise
Attempts by migrants to try to get to the border with the United States have increased in recent weeks, as many hope to finally be able to enter the United States with the expiry, next Thursday, of the decree put in place in 2020 by the government of Donald Trump which allowed, to fight against the Covid, to immediately turn back migrants, even if they claimed the right of asylum.
Mexican authorities are increasing calls to explain to migrants that this is just a false hope and that they will not be able to enter the United States anyway, while this influx is the business of criminals kidnapping migrants. On Tuesday, the United States announced that it was deploying 1,500 additional troops to help provide security at the US-Mexico border in anticipation of a possible increase in illegal crossing attempts.
2023-05-07 08:43:00
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