Over 200 mostly Guatemalan migrants found in Mexican warehouse

A general view shows security forces and migrants pictured in the site after Mexican officials detained more than 200 mostly Guatemala migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who were waiting to be smuggled northward, the government said on Sunday, in Jilotepec in the state of Mexico, Mexico July 24, 2022. The National Migration Institute (INM)/Handout via REUTERS

Mexican security officials detained more than 200 mostly Guatemalan migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who were waiting to be smuggled northward, the government said on Sunday.

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said there were 225 migrants discovered overnight in a warehouse in Jilotepec in the state of Mexico, 194 of whom were Guatemalans. There were also 14 Hondurans, nine Nicaraguans, five Cubans and three El Salvadorans, the INM said.