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343 migrants found unharmed in abandoned trailer in Mexico

7 March 2023
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2023-03-07 16:11

Mexican authorities have found 343 migrants, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway on Sunday night. It was on a route often used by smugglers to bring people from southeastern Mexico to the U.S. border. 

Most of the unaccompanied minors were from Guatemala. Migrants who make it to the United States frequently pay smugglers to bring their children afterward.The National Immigration Institutesaid the adult migrants were mainly from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador.

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