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Mexico finds 101 Guatemalans crammed into a house near US border

Mexico City, Feb 23 (EFE).- The Mexican government reported on Friday the discovery of 101 migrants from Guatemala who were crammed into a house in the municipality of Santa Ana in the state of Sonora, on the border with the US.

The National Institute of Migration (INM in Spanish), along with the Mexican Army and National Guard, found the migrants after receiving a report on Thursday of a “large group of people” in a house “in a state of neglect,” in the municipality, close to the border with Arizona, US, according to an INM statement.

Among the migrants were 11 unaccompanied minors, 12 families of 27 people and 63 single adults “who could not prove their legal residence in the country,” the document added.

“The minors and their families were placed under the care of the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF), while the adults were transferred to the INM facilities,” it concluded.

The finding is evidence of the unprecedented migratory flows in the region in recent years, with more than 782,000 irregular migrants detected in 2023, an increase of around 77% for Mexico alone.

Meanwhile, US authorities arrested 124,220 irregular migrants at the border with Mexico in January, a 50% drop from the record set in December, according to Customs and Border Protection. EFE

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