At least 71 migrants, including several Hondurans, are found detained in a house in Oaxaca
The Prosecutor's Office specified that 32 migrants are from Ecuador, 25 from Venezuela, 7 from Colombia, 3 from Honduras, one from El Salvador, one from Chile, and one from Peru.
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Agents from the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO), southern Mexico, found 71 migrants, including 19 minors, who were being held in a home in the Isthmus region, and where they arrested two people, who were allegedly in charge of monitoring the people.
In a statement, the Prosecutor’s Office said that 32 people are from Ecuador, 25 from Venezuela, seven from Colombia, one from Chile, three from Honduras, one from El Salvador , one from Peru, and one from the African continent, “who were allegedly deprived of their liberty.”
The note explained that the discovery was made as a result of various ministerial investigations led by the FGEO and pointed out that agents from the State Investigation Agency (AEI) participated in the operation in collaboration with agents from the Navy (Semar), State Police and the National Guard (GN).
The FGEO indicated that the operation was carried out this Thursday, at a home located in the Gustavo Pineda de la Cruz neighborhood, in the municipality of Juchitán de Zaragoza.
After the rescue of the migrants, the agents requested the support of the National Institute of Migration (INM) for their transfer, protection and assessment in order to determine their state of health.
Arrest of migrant captors
During the actions, two people were arrested , a 36-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, “both of foreign origin, who were presumably in charge of looking after the migrants and making phone calls to their relatives in which they demanded payment of a large sum of money as payment for their rescue.”
Since October 2018, and despite increased surveillance on Mexico’s southern border, thousands of migrants from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and countries in Africa and China have entered Mexico illegally with the aim of reaching the United States.
Human traffickers seek routes for foreigners who sometimes stop in the southern states of the country such as Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and Oaxaca, as well as in the northern states, which border the United States, one of the last stops on their journey.
Migrants use dangerous routes or stays to clandestinely cross Mexico, routes for which they pay thousands of dollars to human traffickers.
