Mexican police find migrants (Reuters)
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 / 10:23 a.m
A search team has found at least 22 bodies in mass graves in Reynosa, in northeastern Mexico, the authorities announced.
“They found 12 mass graves, containing 22 bodies,” said Jorge Cuellar, a spokesman for the security service in the state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa is located.
The discovery was made by a group called “Love for the Missing” in the Tamaulipas border region with the United States, which is witnessing violence linked to organized crime circles.
A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police into a deadly trap has had devastating collateral damage: It has led some authorities to abandon the volunteers who search for Mexico’s 110,000 missing people. https://t.co/z2alGbTU4e
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) July 14, 2023
Cuyar added that the Public Prosecution Office is assigned to investigate, and that the final number of bodies will be revealed later, and explained that the majority of the remains that were found remained buried from 10 to 14 months.
Families of missing persons, despairing due to the lack of results in the official investigations, sometimes initiate searches for their missing persons.
And the state of Tamaulipas is witnessing continuous confrontations between criminal organizations that are fighting over control of drug trafficking routes, and in March (March) 4 Americans were detained in Matamoros.
This state has the second largest number of missing persons in Mexico, with 13,000 search warrants.
And 110,000 people have gone missing in Mexico since 1962, in what is considered a chronic problem, described by the United Nations as a “human tragedy”.
There have also been 350,000 assassinations recorded in Mexico since the launch of a massive anti-drug military operation in 2006, most of which are attributed to criminal groups.
🔴BREAKING Another caravan, has left the south border of Mexico, with more than 400 migrants from Venezuela, it is the second one and two days🔴@BenBergquam @AgueroForTexas @RealAmVoice @rangerholton @Michael_Yon @bannon_2024 @maureen_bannon @VictorAvilaTX @EVerastegui pic.twitter.com/XjHajk67Vp
– Oscar El Blue (@Oscarelblue) July 18, 2023
Separately, Mexican authorities said they found more than 200 migrants in an abandoned truck in Veracruz state on the Gulf of Mexico.
A total of 206 migrants from Guatemala and Honduras, including 20 unaccompanied minors, believed to be bound for the United States, were found in the abandoned truck near Jose Cardel, about 280 km east of Mexico City.
The National Guard and Immigration Administration said the individuals were found in the truck trailer, which had been modified to hide its contents from X-ray scanning, and fitted with a metal frame to create more space by adding a mezzanine.
The department, citing rescued individuals, said the trailer was overcrowded, its occupants were dehydrated, and sedated to discourage their basic needs. Authorities said the driver may have been on the run.
Thousands of migrants fleeing poverty, violence and political crises seek to reach the United States via Mexico.
The US Border Protection Agency recorded more than two million attempts to cross the border into the United States between October 2021 and October 2022.
The number of immigrants from Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, as well as immigrants from Central America, is increasing significantly.
Still soaking wet illegal immigrants just turned back to Mexico by@GregAbbott_TX‘s Hold the Line operations tell me they’re going off to find friendlier Biden Border Patrol agents who are quickly freeing all their friends and relatives into America. pic.twitter.com/QsfdK7e4SV
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) July 16, 2023
