Mexican authorities find 600 migrants hidden in two trailers in Veracruz

(CNN)Mexican authorities person reported uncovering immoderate 600 migrants connected Friday hidden successful 2 trailers traveling done the authorities of Veracruz, according to the country's National Migration Institute (INM).

In a statement, the migration bureau said that they discovered 145 women and 455 men successful closed container cars that were heading northbound towards the US border.

A important bulk of the migrants -- astir 400 radical -- travel from neighboring Guatemala, portion important numbers besides travel from Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Bangladesh.

Twelve countries successful full are represented successful the migrants' profiles, with El Salvador, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Ghana, India and Cameroon making up the remainder.

The INM said they had started processing the radical and would pass kid extortion agencies successful the cases of unaccompanied minors and families, and volition past determine whether to nonstop them backmost to their location countries oregon springiness them the accidental to stay successful Mexico done a regularization procedure.

In July, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended 212,672 people trying to transverse the borderline betwixt Mexico and the United States -- the highest fig of arrests astatine the borderline successful 2 decades.

Between October 2020 and June 2021, much than 1 cardinal migrants were arrested astatine the border. The situation has prompted the US to tally radio ads in Central America to effort to deter radical from migration.

In the 2021 fiscal year, determination were 557 deaths registered by US Border Patrol -- the highest fig since records began and a important summation from 254 deaths successful 2020.

Migration is precise communal from Central American countries similar Honduras, wherever storms, violence, corruption, nutrient insecurity, and a deficiency of economical accidental person left galore with nary different choice.

Elsewhere successful Latin America, a crackdown connected migration policies accompanied by an exodus of Venezuelans and ample numbers of Haitians moving done the continent person led to a migrant crisis successful the region.

In mid-2020, planetary migrants represented 2.6% of South America's full population, a important summation from the little than 1% registered successful 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

CNN's Daniela Mohor W. and Jeevan Ravindran contributed to this report.