The Mexican authorities detected almost 1.4 million “people in an irregular migratory situation” between January and May 2024, who come from 77 countries on the five continents, reported this Sunday (06/16/2024) by the National Migration Institute ( INM).
In a statement, the institution detailed that – according to the immigration processes – of the 1,393.683 million foreign people who traveled through the country in an irregular condition in the first five months of 2024, 738,270 adult men traveled alone, while 362,979 They were unaccompanied adult women.
“Separately, 154,291 adults were located traveling in family units accompanied by 135,151 minors; while 2,992 unaccompanied minors were identified,” the INM said.
The main country of origin of migrants is Venezuela, followed by Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Haiti, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Cuba. In addition to Senegal, Guinea, the Dominican Republic, China, Brazil, Mauritania, India and Angola, among others. Likewise, he added that the unaccompanied migrant girls and boys were from Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Haiti and Nicaragua.
In the same week of the report, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denied that there is an overflow of the migratory flow in the country, after the tightening of the anti-immigrant measures of the United States Government and the executive order of Joe Biden, which restricts asylum applications and expedites deportations.
Irregular migration intercepted by Mexico has tripled in the first quarter of 2024 to almost 360,000 people amid increasing operations, although the Government affirms that the migratory flow has decreased.
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