Moment Mexican authorities discover 101 US-bound migrants hidden in baggage compartment of broken-down bus
- 101 migrants were found in a broken down bus being used by smugglers to ferry the group towards Mexico’s northern border region with the United States
- The passenger bus had mechanical problems when immigration agents spotted in on a road in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, the National Institute of Migration revealed
- All of the passengers were removed from the bus and taken into custody after it was determined that they had illegally entered the country
- At least nine unaccompanied children were traveling within the group
This is the moment immigration agents in Mexico discovered 101 United States-bound migrants hiding in the luggage compartment of a broken-down bus.
National Institute of Migration officials said the officers noticed the coach after it encountered mechanical problems on a road in Oaxaca City, the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca, on Wednesday.
Upon questioning the driver of the bus, the agents proceeded to inspect the vehicle and discovered the migrants, who were lacking legal documents to be in the country.
Immigration agents took into custody 80 Cubans, 18 Guatemalans, two Nicaraguans and one Venezuelan and transported them to local agency stations for processing.
Mexican immigration agents lead migrants from the passenger bus compartment after 101 individuals from Venezuela, Cuba and Central American were found aboard a coach that had broken down in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, on Wednesday. At least nine of the individuals who were bound for the United States have been identified as unaccompanied children
Several of the migrants were found lying throughout the bus’ compartment area, which is used to store passenger luggage
Immigration agents took into custody 80 Cubans, 18 Guatemalans, two Nicaraguans and one Venezuelan and transported them to local agency stations for processing. The group consisted of nine unaccompanied children, who were placed under the care of the National System for Integral Family Development
Video footage released by the immigration agency showed a bevy of individuals being led from the compartment area that is normally reserved to load passenger baggage.
At least nine unaccompanied children were identified within the group and placed under the care of the National System for Integral Family Development.
Two of the 101 undocumented migrants (first and second to the right) who were detained by immigration agents in Mexico, stand in front of the passenger bus that they were being ferried in towards the country’s northern border with the United States after the coach encountered mechanical problems on Wednesday
Migrants are pulled out of the compartment area of the bus that broke down in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca on Wednesday and was being used by smugglers to transport 101 individuals towards the U.S. border
The bus driver and two bus attendants were taken into custody. Charges are pending.
On Tuesday, immigration agents detained 62 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras on another passenger bus that was pulled over at a checkpoint in Nueva Teapa, a city in the Gulf state of Veracruz.
The migrants, who were being ferried to Mexico’s northern border region with the United States, were transferred to the local National Institute of Migration’s station in the municipality of Acuyacan.
The driver and several attendants aboard the bus were arrested.
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