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Mexican Military Rescue Some 60 Undocumented Migrants Locked in Truck

© AFP 2023 / ALFREDO ESTRELLAMigrants walk in Tenosique, Tabasco State, Mexico, on June 22, 2015
Migrants walk in Tenosique, Tabasco State, Mexico, on June 22, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Mexican soldiers have found more than 60 undocumented migrants nearly suffocating in a truck in the northeast of the country and rescued them, the National Security Commission said on Thursday.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — The gamma rays directed at the truck, which was in motion, helped find the migrants, who were close to death due to lack of oxygen, the commission said.

The vehicle, from which the military could hear pleas for help, was stopped, and the soldiers pulled 64 people, including 22 children, out of the truck,

Most of the migrants, who did not have any documents for legal stay in Mexico, were from Guatemala, the rest of them were from El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, the commission said.

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The commission suggested that the migrants headed for the United States.

Mexico's north borders the United States. The number of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has been high since the early 1990s, amounting to almost a half of the total US undocumented immigration share, according to Pew Research Center.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, the current number of US immigrants and their US-born children is approximately 80 million people, which is one-quarter of the overall population of the country.

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