350 migrants including children are found ‘crowded and dehydrated’ in the back of a truck in Mexico

Hundreds of ‘dehydrated’ migrants, including children, were found in the back of a truck in Mexico after authorities heard their horrifying cries.

Their desperate pleas to be saved from being sardined in the metal prison were answered after the driver of the trailer stopped at a toll booth between the cities of Córdoba and Coatzacoalcos in the eastern state of Veracruz.

A gamma-ray device detected the presence of the 350 migrants in the container, the vast majority of whom were from Guatemala. Meanwhile, six came from Ecuador, three from Honduras and one from El Salvador.

Minors and those traveling as a family were placed under the guardianship of the State System for the Integral Development of the Family. Mexico’s National Institute for Migration (INM) reported.

Hundreds of ‘dehydrated’ migrants, including children, were found in the back of a truck in Mexico after authorities heard their horrifying cries

Shocking video footage shows the moment the hundreds were freed from the back of the trailer as authorities took the driver and vehicle into custody.

Images were seen of shirtless men, small children held close to their loving families and hundreds of suitcases and bags clambering out of the truck.

In one photo, a shirtless man can be seen clinging to the roof of the truck as two children emerge from the dark can.

The videos and images highlight the extremes to which human trafficking within Mexico has increased, as the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border increased in August from the previous month to approximately 177,000. New York Times reported.

“Failed communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwestern U.S. border,” said CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus.

He said teams are “working around the clock to secure the border and safely and humanely process and investigate each individual.”

“But those fleeing repressive regimes pose significant challenges to processing and removal,” he said.

The videos and images highlight the extremes at which human trafficking within Mexico has increased as the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border increased in August.

A gamma-ray device detected the presence of the 350 migrants in the container, the vast majority of whom were from Guatemala. Meanwhile, six came from Ecuador, three from Honduras and one from El Salvador

Minors and those traveling as a family were placed under the guardianship of the State System for the Integral Development of the Family

“This year, more people found at the border without a legal basis to remain will be deported or removed than any year before.”

The preliminary data released to the newspaper highlights the Biden administration’s most prominent immigration challenge since introducing its new border policy in the spring.

There were about 91,000 migrants crossing the border as families, exceeding the 84,486 such crossings recorded in May 2019 at the height of the border crisis during the Trump administration.

There was a noticeable dip in June following the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure that allowed Biden to quickly expel migrants.

But the decline was temporary: the number of illegal crossings rose by 33 percent between June and July and by a further 33 percent in August.