EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Mexican government on Wednesday flew dozens of Venezuelans from Juarez to a detention facility in southern Mexico.
A Border Report camera crew captured the migrants in plastic cuffs waiting outside the National Migration Institute offices at the Ysleta-Zaragoza International Bridge to board a bus that would take them to Juarez International Airport.
From a distance, some could be heard pleading to be taken to the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico City instead of a detention center in Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala. A man in a yellow shirt appeared to be crying.
Officials said some of the migrants had been expelled from the United States recently while others were picked up in Juarez.
Juarez municipal police officers and members of Mexico’s National Guard, armed with rifles, supervised the transfer.
Venezuelan migrants at the Mexican immigration office on the Ysleta-Zaragoza international bridge wait to board a bus to Juarez International Airport on Wednesday.
Mexico’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Mexico has agreed to cooperate with the United States in reducing the flow of migrants to the border and work with the migrants’ countries of origin on economic assistance, jobs in Mexico and repatriation flights.
ProVideo in Juarez, Mexico, contributed to this report.
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