Mexican immigration authorities detained a truck in which they found 57 Guatemalan adolescents. The truck was stopped on a highway near the US border on Thursday.
The National Immigration Institute said the 43 boys and 14 girls were crammed into the truck's trailer, along with eight men and a woman and her daughter, an AP report read. There were a total of 67 migrants on the truck.
Mexican immigration agents found three unaccompanied Salvadoran children stranded on an islet on the Rio Grande, an area on the US-Mexico border in early January.
None of the adolescents had any parents or relatives with them and so were considered unaccompanied minors. Such apprehensions are common along the US-Mexico border. Though this number plummeted recently in the wake of new migrant restrictions imposed by President Joe Biden.
According to an AP report, the driver of the vehicle was detained. The minors were taken to a child welfare facility
