PICTURED: THREE HUNDRED Central American immigrants are stopped trying to get into America in just two trucks - both without proper ventilation
- Two trucks carrying a total of 300 immigrants form Central America were stopped trying as they made their way to the US border over the weekend
- Among the migrants were 83 nationals from Honduras, 14 from El Salvador and six from Guatemala, including 18 minors
- Three people have been detained suspected of human trafficking.
Three hundred U.S.-bound Central Americans migrants, including dozens of children, were found over the weekend inside two trucks in Mexico without proper ventilation or enough food or water.
Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, known as INM, informed that 198 migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were found Saturday morning inside a truck as they were being transported in the state of Tamaulipas, border with Texas.
“They were traveling in overcrowding conditions,” said the INM.
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Of the 198 foreign nationals found inside the truck, 76 came from Guatemala, 103 from Honduras and 19 from El Salvador. There were 80 men, 39 women, 40 boys and 39 girls. Of the minors, 55 were traveling with their parents while 24 were unaccompanied
On Friday, officials found another truck with 102 Central Americas with signs of dehydration and asphyxia
Three people were arrested suspected of human trafficking.
On Friday, officials found another truck with 102 Central Americas with signs of dehydration and asphyxia.
On Monday, President Donald Trump renewed his calls for his promised wall with Mexico, saying on Twitter “Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time.”
Congress has until March 5th to reach an agreement on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. when they were minors by their undocumented parents.
Sens. John McCain, a Republican, and Christopher A. Coons, a Democrat, introduced a bill Monday that would grant permanent legal status to the so-called Dreamers as well as tighten security along the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposal, however, doesn’t include changes to what Trump calls “chain migration,” the ability of greencard-holders and naturalized immigrants to legally bring relatives to the U.S. The plan doesn’t put an end to the diversity lottery program either, something Trump has been strongly requesting in exchange for any DACA deal.
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On his Twitter account, McCain referred to the bill as a potential “important starting point towards reaching a bipartisan immigration compromise so we can end the gridlock” and move on to completing a budget agreement.
Immigration reform talks in Congress hit a low point last month when at a closed-door meeting Trump reportedly complaint about the arrival of Haitians and immigrants from African nations, referring to them as “shithole countries,” according to sources present at that meeting.
Thousands of Honduran and Salvadorian immigrants currently live and work legally in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status, but that designation is set to expire next year in the case of Salvadorians, while a decision on Hondurans is still pending.
The Department of Homeland Security determined in January that El Salvador no longer meets a TPS designation on the basis of an environmental disaster. El Salvador’s TPS designation will end on Sept. 9, 2019. Honduras’s TPS is good until July 5, when the DHS will decide whether to extend, redesign or terminate their protection.
The route followed by the trucks, from Ciudad Victoria to Linares, is popular among human traffickers that avoid police controls on their way to the bordering state of Tamaulipas
Once the migrants were found they were given food and drink. On Monday, President Donald Trump renewed his calls for his promised wall with Mexico, saying on Twitter 'Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time'.
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