60 Migrants including Lankans found in Southern Mexico
June 1, 2010 07:15 am
A group of 60 illegal immigrants including Sri Lankans suffering
from dehydration were found by police packed into a trailer in the southern
Mexican state of
The migrants, who are from Central America, India and Sri Lanka, were traveling
in “subhuman conditions” on a truck with Mexican Social Security Institute
logos, the government of Chiapas, which is on the border with Guatemala, said.
The illegal immigrants were found during an X-ray inspection at a checkpoint in
the city of
The truck driver, a Mexican citizen, was turned over to federal prosecutors,
The migrants – 45 men and 15 women – were treated for dehydration by doctors.
The group, made up of 30 Salvadorans, 15 Guatemalans, five Hondurans, seven Sri
Lankans and three Indians, was headed for the United States.
Some 200,000 Central Americans, according to estimates, cross
About 70,000 illegal immigrants were detained at Mexican immigration stations
last year and returned home, the non-governmental group Sin Fronteras said.
EFE