Tegucigalpa.
The Honduran National Police detained this Saturday on the frontier of Guatemala with two Guatemalans for illegally transporting 16 Nicaraguans and a Honduran in a van, which was the final destination in the United States.
The detention took place in Corinth, frontier point with Guatemala, in a “vigilance and follow-up” operation by agents of the National Directorate of Frontier Police Services and the Police Investigation Directorate, indicating the Honduran Police.
The Guatemalans, who were 32 and 36 years old and had no identity revealed, were caught by the suspects responsible for the crime of “illegal trafficking of persons in the liberty of 16 citizens of the origin of Nicaragua and a dog.
Security forces are deciding to detain 8,915 quetzals ($ 1,155) and three mobile phones, according to official information.
The Guatemalans will be “remitted to the agency to continue the legal process”, the Honduran Police signaled.
The 16 Nicaraguans flew to an office of the National Institute of Migration (INM), where coordinated authorities returned to Nicaragua.
In recent days, Honduran Police have stepped up patrols on the front lines to avoid the trafficking of people across national territory.
Central American countries have been converted in recent decades into a transit point for migrants, especially Cubans and Africans, who are traveling to Central American countries to travel to the EE.UU.
As many as 3,000 irregular immigrants, in their Cuban majority, were detained in Honduras in 2021 due to illegal immigration, some of them with the intention of going to the United States, according to INM figures.
The extras are being recruited to the Fourth Migrant Migration Centers (CAMI) that the Honduran government has housed in different points of the country.
Immigrants also received humanitarian attention and completed a migration process through the Honduras Integral Biometric Control System.