More than 50 unaccompanied Guatemalan children were found in Mexico in a crowded truck near the U.S. border, Mexican authorities said Thursday.
The country’s National Institute of Migration said there were 67 migrants in the truck, including 57 children, mostly boys aged between 14 and 17, and a mother and daughter, all without proper migration permits, Reuters reported.
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Mexican authorities said the truck was stopped in Mexico’s Chihuahua state, which borders Texas and New Mexico. Guatemala is a Central American country just south of Mexico.
The truck driver was brought to Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, Reuters added, and the migrants will be handed over to state authorities for the protection of children and teenagers.
The Biden administration has faced bipartisan criticism over its border policies as it struggles to respond to a record 2.2 million arrests of migrants caught crossing the border illegally in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. This past month, El Paso declared a state of emergency as an influx of migrants crossing the border overwhelmed authorities there.
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has faced calls for impeachment over the situation at the border.
