Bodies of four immigrants found at the border between Mexico and the USA

They said three of the four bodies found were in an advanced stage of decomposition and one had died in the last few hours, corresponding to a migrant reported missing on Wednesday.

The National Institute of Migration (INM), based in its headquarters in the state of Baja California, informed EFE in a statement that two Mexican immigrants tried to cross into the USA from the mountainous region of Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday. Adjacent to the municipality of Tecate, but They were attacked by human traffickers with firearms and only one survived.

Following a tip from a family member, INM agents began searching and locating and located four dead bodies, including that of the immigrant reported missing. The report stated that on September 20, a person of Mexican origin arrived at INM offices and that two of his relatives had attempted to cross into the United States – the day before – but were attacked with firearms as they made their way towards the mountain. The family member said that after being attacked, “one passed out and when he woke up he could no longer find his friend – his cousin – so he decided to return to the INM and ask for support to locate him as he could be injured,” the statement stated.

Agents from Beta Group and INM, which were assisting the immigrants, found no one during the initial search, but learned that one of the two seriously injured immigrants was being treated at a hospital with the assistance of National Guard agents. He confirmed that his cousin was staying in the area.

This Thursday, immigration officials continued their location work and during the tour met with activists from the “We Are All Erick Carrillo” collective, consisting of relatives of missing persons who received an anonymous search report in the same area.

The report emphasized that “it was the members of this group who found the bodies of four people, possibly immigrants, one of whom had the characteristics of a person of Mexican origin who had been sought since the previous day”, but one of the other three people was found. No information was shared.

Just last September 11, David Pérez Tejada, the INM delegate in Baja California, warned that at least three areas where gunmen and various safe houses had been reported were completely controlled by organized crime; one of them is the mountainous region between Tijuana and Tijuana. Tecate. “There are areas between Tijuana and Tecate, adjacent to San Diego, where there are no walls, and criminals are taking advantage of that to control that area,” the delegate later said.

Meanwhile, Enrique Lucero, the municipal director of migrant care in Tijuana, assured the media a few days ago: Irregular border crossings increased this yearBecause the desperation and fear of waiting in Tijuana is great. “There are even immigrants paying up to $17,000 just to cross the border, which has become as lucrative a business as drug smuggling,” he said.

Mexico has been experiencing a new wave of migration in recent weeks, with 60 freight trains of the Ferromex company being suspended due to the presence of more than 4,000 immigrants in wagons and on the rails, and thousands of immigrants experiencing a stampede in offices. To deal with refugees at the southern border.