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Mexico
arrests 240,000 illegal migrants
in 2005
Mexico arrested around 240,269
undocumented migrants in 2005,
nearly 11.39 percent more than a
year earlier and 74 percent more
than three years earlier, the
country's National Migration
Agency (INM) said in a statement
on Sunday.
The INM said 89 percent of the
illegal migrants were from
central America, with nearly
101,000 from Guatemala, 78,326
from Honduras and nearly 42,700
from El Salvador.
The remaining 18,320 or so
included nationals of Brazil,
Venezuela and other more distant
places like China.
The INM said the state of
Chiapas, which borders
Guatemala, saw the most arrests,
with nearly 104,000 in 2005.
Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico
was next in line with around
25,600 and Tabasco, on the
Caribbean coast, saw nearly
21,000 arrests.
The document said that Mexico
has set up seven new detention
centers across the country to
deal with the rising number of
arrests.
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