MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Police in the eastern Mexican state
of Veracruz have rescued 115 migrants, including 41 minors, traveling in
"in deplorable conditions" in a truck, a state official said on
Sunday.
The migrants were found at Play at Munecos in Veracruz, said
the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
There were 55 men, 19 women, 23 boys and 18 girls. The two
people driving the truck were arrested, the official said.
In July, eight migrants were found dead inside a suspicious
tractor trailer in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio in Texas. At least 100
illegal immigrants were packed in the sweltering tractor-trailer and two more
died later. The driver was indicted this month.
The number of Central American migrants arrested at the
southern U.S. border has fallen sharply since President Donald Trump took
office in January.
Migrants have increasingly sought to travel through Mexico in
large groups in trucks, in order to avoid Mexican immigration authorities who
stepped up efforts to stem the migrant flow after a rise in child migrants in
2014.
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