Authorities Detain Over 1,400 Undocumented Immigrants in Southern Mexico Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original March 3, 2014

MEXICO CITY – Military personnel and National Migration Institute (INM) agents detained 1,438 undocumented foreigners, the majority of them Guatemalans, during an operation in southern Mexico, officials said Sunday.

“Operation Soconusco II,” which took place from Jan. 17 to Feb. 14 in Chiapas state, also led to the arrests of 74 other people, of whom 70 are Mexicans, on drug, people trafficking and other charges, the Defense Secretariat, the Navy Secretariat and the INM said in a joint statement.

Authorities detained 955 Guatemalans, 241 Hondurans, 218 Salvadorans, 14 Cubans, six Nicaraguans, an American, a Panamanian, a Dominican and an Ecuadorian.

Officials labeled the detentions of the immigrants a “rescue.”

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