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US: Mexico detains 652 Central American migrants near US border
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10 October 2021
WASHINGTON, 10 October 2021, (TON): Mexico detained more than 650 undocumented migrants, more than half of them children, traveling in refrigerated truck containers towards the border with the United States, authorities said.
The military and National Guard night “detected three tractor trailers with six long refrigerated containers transporting 652 migrants, of which 355 are minors.”
The government of northeastern Tamaulipas state said.
It said “most of the migrants were from Guatemala, and nearly 200 minors were traveling unaccompanied, it said in a statement. Four people transporting the migrants were arrested.”
The convoy was stopped at a military checkpoint in Hidalgo, Tamaulipas.
In the country’s northeast, the statement said “initial information indicates that the migrants came from the city of Puebla (in central Mexico), bound for Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.”
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