After seven months of work to establish his identity and resolve legal matters, the National Migration Institute managed to arrange the return of a three-year-old boy of Russian nationality who was abandoned on July 22, 2024 in a hotel in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
Through its social networks, the INM reported that it carried out the assisted return of the minor, who already returned to his country on February 19 in the company of two Child Protection officers “who are specialized INM agents in care for migrant children.”
The National Migration Institute managed to arrange the return of the child to his country of origin with the support of the Russian embassy in Mexico, “which expressed its gratitude to the Mexican authorities.”
According to the information issued this day on the institute’s social networks, the flight in which the minor was transported made a stopover in Barcelona “where the collaboration of the authorities of Russia and Dubai was counted on to reach Moscow, where he was received by child protection officials of that country.”
There are few minors repatriated
For her part, the head of the National Migration Institute in the State of Coahuila, Sonia Leticia Guardiola Alemán, indicated that in the case of repatriations, there are very few unaccompanied Mexican minors and adolescents who arrive in the state and are channeled to the DIF system and the State Attorney’s Office for the Care of Children and Girls, so that they arrive safely to their place of origin.
“It is very few, perhaps per week we can ask to receive 2 or 3 adolescents, and the DIF is prepared with sufficient capacity to be able to attend to them or the PRONNIF immediately takes notice of the case.”
She said that the majority of those repatriated are men of productive age.
Source: milenio
