Mexico Finds 491 Migrants Being Held at Vacant Lot, Almost All Are From Guatemala

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration company stated late Friday it discovered 491 migrants being held at a compound by the facet of a freeway east of Mexico Metropolis.

All however six of the migrants had been from Guatemala; the others are Hondurans.

There have been 277 kids and adolescents among the many migrants, most of whom had been touring with kinfolk. However there have been additionally 52 unaccompanied minors.

The migrants had been being held in a walled compound close to town of Puebla, alongside a route incessantly utilized by migrant smugglers. The migrants had been taken to workplaces of the Nationwide Immigration Institute.

Smugglers in Mexico incessantly cover migrants at such compounds till they are often taken aboard buses or vans to the U.S. border.

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