111 undocumented migrants found in State of Mexico

Members of the Federal Police located 111 undocumented migrants traveling in two different buses in the Mexico-Puebla highway.

The first vehicle lacked proper license plates and was stopped in the 032+000 km of the Mexico-Puebla highway, where the police found thirty-six migrants coming from Guatemala, and nineteen illegal immigrants from El Salvador, who failed to provide any document that proved their legal stay in the country. Sixteen of the undocumented migrants coming from el Salvador were minors.

Later, a passenger bus was stopped in the 017+000 km of the same highway, in the Santa Bárbara-San Martín Texmelucan section, for having covered its windshield with plastic. Here, the police found three people from El Salvador, two people from Honduras and 51 people from Guatemala who similarly failed to provide documents of their legal stay in the country.

“The undocumented migrants have been treated in strict compliance with their human rights; aid and food were provided to them and their consulates have already been notified of the situation. All undocumented migrants have been taken to the Attorney General’s Office so that the National Migration Institute can provide for assisted return to their country of origin”.

The bus drivers of each of the buses were arrested for alleged human trafficking and remain at the disposal of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in the municipalities of Chalco and Texcoco, respectively, were their legal status remains to be determined.