Reuters: Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children
March 29, 2014
MEXICO
CITY (Reuters) - In one week, 370 immigrant children, most of them from
Central America, were found abandoned in Mexico, after traffickers
promised to take them
to the United States but left them to their own devices after being
paid thousands of dollars, authorities said.
Almost
half of them, 163 children under the age of 18, were found traveling
alone, Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement.
Each
month, thousands of immigrants, mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador, attempt to emigrate to the United States, crossing several
borders in the process,
despite the threat from drug gangs that kidnap, murder and rape women.
The
children told federal migration agents that their 'guides' abandoned
them after accepting $3,000 to $5,000 in payments, INM said.
The
children and young people, who came from three of the poorest countries
in Central America, were found between March 17 and 24, in 14 different
states in Mexico.
"The
majority of the children showed signs of extreme fatigue, foot
injuries, dehydration and disorientation whereby they didn't know where
they had been abandoned," INM
said.
Many
immigrants are able to get to the U.S. and then entrust their children
to the traffickers who pay large sums of money for them.
In
the week the children were found, a total of 1,895 immigrants from
various countries were detected in Mexico from countries as far away as
Somalia, Japan and Syria,
among others.
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