Juarez City.- During the first five months of 2024, the National Migration Institute (INM) located 1 million 393 thousand 683 people of foreign origin who traveled in an irregular condition through the country, coming from the five continents.
Through a press release, this Sunday the federal authority that depends on the Ministry of the Interior (SeGob), reported that between January and May it identified 738,270 adult men traveling alone through Mexico and 362,979 unaccompanied adult women. .
It also located 154,291 adults traveling in family units accompanied by 135,151 children and adolescents (NNA), in addition to 2,992 unaccompanied migrant minors.
Among the irregular foreigners registered by the INM People from 177 countries were found, including 377,401 from Venezuela, 209,540 from Guatemala, 144,499 from Honduras, 136,699 from Ecuador, 107,432 from Haiti, 70,371 from Colombia, 52,636 from El Salvador. , 45,364 from Nicaragua, 28,167 from Peru, 27,404 from Cuba, 20,847 from Senegal, 19,922 from Guinea and 16,228 from the Dominican Republic.
13,780 people from China, 11,058 from Brazil, 9,757 from Mauritania, 8,914 from India and 7,037 from Angola, among other countries, were also located.
According to the INM “the unaccompanied adult foreigners were transferred to the different immigration stations where their immigration administrative procedure was carried out and their situation was resolved in each case according to their particular circumstance, in strict accordance with what was established. by the corresponding laws.”
According to the narratives of the migrants to El Diario, in the case of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, when they were detained in the country by Immigration agents They are returned to southern Mexicoto entities such as Villahermosa, Tabasco and Tapachula, Chiapas.
This year, some foreigners have narrated and shared videos showing that they were detained at the Precos military checkpoint, located in Samalayuca, then taken to the Janos immigration station, and then transferred to Delicias, where they were taken down. in front of a gas station.
Through the bulletin, the INM reports that “family units and unaccompanied minors, as established by the legal norm, were channeled for care to spaces of the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (SNDIF).”
In this regard, last April, through an urgent letter sent to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), representatives of the UN Mexico and the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), the Working Group on Migration Policy denounced to the INM for having violated the rights of 21 girls, boys and adolescents in a situation of mobility.
According to what was documented by the local organization Comprehensive Human Rights in Action (DHIA), on April 11 and 12, 2024, INM agents detained 14 families with children and adolescents from Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil, and returned them illegally to Villahermosa, Tabasco, without notifying the state DIF of Chihuahua.
Regarding the unaccompanied minors, it was reported that they were from Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Haiti and Nicaragua.
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