Mexico detains more than 16,000 foreign migrants in four days

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Mexico detained more than 16,000 migrants in a four-day span, including nearly 5,000 Venezuelans, the country’s National Institute of Migration said. | Reuters

Migrants from Venezuela walk in a caravan to the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of others are stranded following a deal to expel Venezuelan migrants crossing into the United States after the new U.S.-Mexico migrant policy, in Huixtla, Mexico October 15, 2022. REUTERS FILE PHOTO

MEXICO CITY — Mexico detained more than 16,000 migrants in a four-day span, including nearly 5,000 Venezuelans, the country’s National Institute of Migration said Monday. The INM said 16,096 migrants from 46 countries were detained in 22 Mexican states between Nov. 17 and 20.The majority of the migrants were from Central and South American countries, including 4,968 Venezuelans, 2,987 Guatemalans, 1,385 Nicaraguans, 1,311 Hondurans and 1,285 Ecuadorians.

The government agency said it increased services via migrant attention centers in several states including Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Durango, Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz and Zacatecas due to an influx of migrants and they dangers they face including traffickers and increasingly cold temperatures.

 

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Reuters Why do you use the term 'Migrant'? A Migrant would be a person who a country has given approval to come and reside on a permanent or semi permanent nature. They have approval to enter the country, not push their way through! The

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