A group of 1,500 migrants arrived in Jiménez, Chihuahua where they received support after being stranded in the desert.
Chihuahua, Chih. 1,500 migrants traveling on a freight train to Ciudad Juárez were stranded in the middle of the desert, south of the state of Chihuahua on the border with Durango, for which they received help from the municipality of Jimenez, the Secretary of Government announced. state, Santiago de la Peña Grajeda.
People on the move, most of them families, were stranded on Sunday, approximately at kilometer 185 of the federal highway between Jimenez, Chihuahua, and Ceballos, Durango, in an area called Rellano, where the train stopped.
Santiago de la Peña stated that the municipality of Jiménez offered food and water to the migrants to avoid a humanitarian crisis, “due to the conditions in which they come, there are people who have not taken food for days, who struggle for obvious reasons to hydrate themselves adequate, also in this spirit of need, they (migrants) could generate problems of public insecurity.”
“The mayor of Jiménez called me very concerned on Sunday and said that throughout the week he served approximately a thousand migrants, now I receive 1,500 together, and as an act of humanity, we must give them water, food and lodging.”
“1,500 people in a municipality like Jiménez is not something simple, and if the municipality was not in a position to provide them with help, this could unleash a crisis.”
“The flow of migrants is beginning to increase, concerned because a good number of women and children were coming on the train, and we are joined by the hot season.”
The Jiménez city council reported that the Public Security Directorate transferred 200 foreigners from the highway in the Rellano area to the municipal seat, where the Gomez Morin basketball gym was set up as a shelter and they were provided with food, accommodation and medical services.
However, the rest of the migrants stayed in the vicinity of Rellano and on the railroad track, they refused to go to the shelter and spent the night in the desert, waiting for the train to resume its journey.
Source: jornada
