Mexican federal and native police forces in Mexico Metropolis are rounding up the migrants and transporting them by buses to the southern a part of the nation in an try to alleviate extreme overcrowding. This extreme overcrowding comes at a time when the US and Mexico have been unable to include the rising variety of migrants and asylum seekers attempting to make their approach north.
In current days, Mexico’s Nationwide Migration Institute, with the assistance of native police forces, has begun rounding up migrants from Central America and the Caribbean in Iztapalapa and different Mexico Metropolis neighborhoods and delivery them to Tabasco state. The police then launched them onto the streets with none belongings.
A senior NCI official who spoke with Breitbart Texas mentioned the raids occurred at night time to keep away from attracting consideration. INM brokers advised the migrants they might take them to a shelter the place they might obtain heat beds and meals. Migrants line up and board a number of buses chartered by INM. Nevertheless, as a substitute of transporting the migrants to a cushty location, the buses had been driving in the course of the night time in a southerly path in direction of totally different cities within the state of Tabasco, together with Villa Hermosa.
As soon as there, INM brokers drop off migrants with none technique of communication and, typically, with out their belongings earlier than returning to Mexico Metropolis.
The raids come at a time when Mexico Metropolis is witnessing a major improve within the variety of migrants. Nationwide Migrants Institute officers, who requested to stay nameless, estimate that greater than 5,000 migrants have arrived in current weeks, inflicting extreme overcrowding in varied shelters all through Mexico Metropolis. This has led to most migrants being compelled to sleep on the streets in unsanitary circumstances.
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