Mexico detains more than 16,000 foreign migrants in four days

FILE PHOTO: Migrants from Venezuela walk in a caravan to the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of others are stranded following a deal to expel Venezuelan migrants crossing into the United States after the new U.S.-Mexico migrant policy, in Huixtla, Mexico October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Torres

Mexico detained more than 16,000 migrants in a four-day span, including nearly 5,000 Venezuelans, the country's National Institute of Migration (INM) said Monday.

The INM said 16,096 migrants from 46 countries were detained in 22 Mexican states between Nov. 17 and 20.