Undocumented
Immigrants Rescued In
Guatemala
MEXICO CITY - Guatemalan
officials detained 56
undocumented immigrants
picked up from a
stricken ship in
Guatemalan waters, an
official source from the
Guatemalan General
Direction of Migration
said Monday.
According to information
reaching here from
Guatemala City, the
immigrants were rescued
Sunday by U.S.
coastguards as their
small ship was about to
sink.
The immigrants were
taken to Quetzal port in
the south of Guatemala,
a spokesman from the
Guatemalan General
Direction of Migration
said.
The spokesman added that
there were 20 women, 30
men and six children
aboard, supposedly from
Ecuador, who were trying
to pass secretly into
the U.S.
Since being detained
they have received
medical care, and have
been taken to a shelter
in Guatemala city while
they await repatriation.
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