46 illegal Guatemalan
immigrants apprehended
in SW Mexico
A total of 46 illegal
immigrants from
Guatemala were arrested
on Sunday on a highway
in the southeastern
Mexican state of
Chiapas, said Mexico's
Federal Preventive
Police (PFP).
The illegal immigrants,
including two women and
three children, were
hiding in the false
bottom of a 1994 DINA
truck and discovered at
a check point on the
Chiapas-Ocosocuautla
highway, said the
police.
They have been turned
over to Mexico's
National Migration
Institute (INM) in the
city of Tuxtla
Gutierrez, capital of
the state of Chiapas, to
be sent back to
Guatemala.
At least 135 illegal
immigrants have been
captured in Mexico in
the past month, trying
to cross to the United
States.
According to
non-governmental
organizations that
provide assistance to
Central American
immigrants, some 500
immigrants die every
year in their attempts
to reach the United
States by crossing
Mexico. |
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