International News: Over 50 unaccompanied Guatemalan children found in migrant truck in Mexico

Posted: Friday, January 27, 2023. 10:43 am CST.

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: On Thursday, Mexican authorities found almost 70 migrants from Guatemala inside a truck, most of them unaccompanied children, Reuters report.

Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) said that agents saw the truck at a checkpoint in Chihuahua and a search revealed that 67 migrants from Guatemala traveling in the truck, including 57 unaccompanied minors, mostly boys, aged between 14 and 17.

All of them without proper migration permits.

The unaccompanied minors will be handed over to state authorities for the protection of children and teenagers.

Earlier this month, Mexican authorities found 3 unaccompanied Salvadoran children stranded on an islet on the Rio Grande, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.

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