Mexican authorities have detained 40 Chinese migrants who were traveling by bus in southern Mexico on their way north with the goal of reaching the U.S. border. The detentions came on the same day authorities detained 180 Central and South American migrants elsewhere in an apparent crackdown on migrants trying to reach the northern border.
The detentions took place in Oaxaca state earlier this week, when officials from Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) stopped a bus in the town of Tlacolula and found 40 migrants, including a family of six, all from China.
@INAMI_mx Union and State Coordination, Ubico of Tlacolula; #Oaxaca, 40 Personas Immigrants de Origentino. Thirty-four adults are responsible for her INM installations, and six individuals act as her NNA administrators. pic.twitter.com/ofjIQe4FHq
— INM (@INAMI_mx) January 9, 2024
Authorities claimed to have detained Chinese migrants at an INM office, although they did not say whether the group had travel permits or how they entered the country.
The detention of 40 Chinese immigrants came on the same day that INM officers and federal authorities detained 182 migrants from Guatemala and Ecuador who were crammed into a bus. The incident occurred along one of the highways connecting Veracruz and Puebla states. Authorities searched one bus and found 182 migrants, including unaccompanied children, family units, and single adults.
#communication | Aucilia @INAMI_mx jp #Veracruz 182 people from Guatemala and Ecuador immigrated via motorbus. https://t.co/vNKeaJWEjY pic.twitter.com/zYHEYtLds3
— INM (@INAMI_mx) January 9, 2024
Authorities took the migrants to the INM station and turned the bus driver over to federal authorities.
The crackdown comes amid heightened tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border over a record number of migrants crossing the border illegally and applying for asylum and other protections. US politicians have harshly criticized Mexican authorities for fueling the ongoing migrant crisis by issuing travel permits to migrants heading north and allowing caravans to move into the country.
Breitbart Texas reported that in the first three and a half months, Border Patrol apprehended a record-breaking 16,000 Chinese immigrants who entered the United States illegally between ports of entry.
Editor's Note: Breitbart Texas is recruiting citizen journalists willing to risk their lives to expose the cartels that silence their communities in Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. visited the state. If pseudonyms were not used, the authors would surely face death at the hands of the various cartels operating in these regions, including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Breitbart Texas Cartel Chronicles Published in both English and original Spanish. This article was written by “Williams Cortez” from Baja California.
The December and January arrest numbers reported above are based on unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. This number is subject to change once the official report is released. The December Southwest Land Border Encounter Report is expected to be released by mid-January.
