Story By: Pol F, Sub-Editor: Joe Golder, Agency: Newsflash
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 Central American migrants were rescued from the back of an escorted trailer together with four people travelling with them.
The four people smugglers were arrested for the crime of human trafficking with two in the trailer and two travellings in the vehicle.
The vehicle was stopped while circulating on the Coatzacoalcos-Villahermosa highway, in the municipality of Coatzacoalcos, in the coastal state of Veracruz, located in Eastern Mexico, on 3rd November.
According to the authorities, the vehicle was travelling on the federal highway when, upon reaching the security checkpoint, located at kilometre 17, federal police and elements of the Mexican Army detected that the unit was suspiciously being escorted by a red car.
Upon reviewing the trailer, they found 104 Central American migrants, including three minors, in the vehicle and paramedics from the Mexican Red Cross made checks to determine that none of them was at risk from COVID, as reported in Latin American newspaper InfoBae.
The paramedics said that they came to support, to check that they were doing well, that they were in good health, they were all stable, they are doing very well, they just found a person who had a little temperature.”
As well as the two adult smugglers in the trailer, there were 101 adults and three minors, from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, as reported in Mexican newspaper Milenio.
The migrants were made available to the National Migration Institute, to be deported to their place of origin.
Four people were arrested for human trafficking, two who were travelling in the trailer and another two who were in the red car escorting the operation.
Mexico has been experiencing a lot of problems lately due to the poor conditions in which the migrants travel and the unprepared migration offices because of the pandemic, as reported in InfoBae.
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