On the other end of the phone line, all that can be heard at first is the complaint: Immigration deceived us.
On the night of Monday, January 27, at least 100 migrants received an offer from immigration authorities to be transferred to the city of Oaxaca. They never arrived.
The migrants, at least 100, including adults and women and about 40 children, had arrived walking along the Pan-American Highway yesterday morning to the town of La Ventosa in the municipality of Juchitán, and in the evening they agreed to be transferred to the city of Oaxaca aboard two buses.
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Despite this promise, early Tuesday morning, some migrants contacted people they knew and explained that they realized that the buses were not going to the Oaxacan capital, so they all got off in the Veracruz town of Medias Aguas.
According to testimonies collected by EL UNIVERSAL, the foreigners who got off the two buses dispersed in different directions and fled from the authorities of the National Institute of Migration (INM), with the objective of continuing their route to Mexico City.
“We are looking for food,” they said desperately when interviewed.
“The INM’s deception is one of the Mexican government’s policies to favor the United States authorities. The INM always resorts to threats and lies,” activist Luis Rey García Villagrán, defender of the rights of migrants, warned this media.
Source: oaxaca.eluniversal
