Mexico finds nearly 500 US-bound migrants in roadside compound — more than half are children

Mexico’s immigration company introduced late Friday evening that it discovered 491 migrants stashed in a compound on the facet of the freeway east of Mexico.

Of the migrants, 277 of them had been youngsters or adolescents — most of whom had been touring with family members.

Nevertheless 52 of the minors had been unaccompanied, the company stated. 

All however six had been from Guatemala — the others had been from Honduras.

The migrants had been being held in a walled compound outdoors of town of Puebla alongside a well-liked smuggling route.

“They had been transferred to headquarters of the Nationwide Institute of Migration to offer them with water, meals and medical consideration,” the group told CBS News in a press release.

Smugglers in Mexico steadily conceal migrants at such compounds till they’ll board buses or vehicles to the US border.

A federal appeals court docket ruled Thursday to briefly preserve in place Biden administration guidelines that limit the circulation of asylum-seekers on the southern border to halt the surge of migrants making the damaging crossing.

Beneath the coverage, migrants seeking to enter the US legally should both use the CBP One App to make an appointment or apply for defense in nations they journey by way of earlier than looking for refuge within the states.

The rule was set to run out by Monday following a call by a decrease court docket that discovered it to be unlawful.

With Publish Wires