About 600 mostly Cuban migrants who were part of a mass escape from a southern Mexico immigration detention centre a day earlier remained at large Friday evening, immigration authorities said.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute said in a statement that rather than the 1,300 escapees it reported Thursday night, only 645 migrants had actually fled. It said only 35 of those who escaped had returned without explaining why it had lowered its figures.The escape began with Cuban migrants escaping their holding area into an area reserved for women, who were mostly Honduran.
Residents of Tapachula, a city on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, reported seeing hundreds of migrants running through the streets late Thursday, some only half dressed, some cramming themselves into passing minivans to escape. On Friday, Gomez Cabrera stood outside the station -- as he has most days since his wife was detained -- trying to get information about her. He said there had been a fight at the facility prior to the escape, and it was provoked by overcrowding.
Torres Espinosa said her daughter had told her conditions at Siglo XXI, which means "21st century" in Spanish, were "very bad" and had worsened in the last week. "All the ones who left are going to get put on a red list," Gomez Cabrera said. "If they catch them again, they are going to be subject to automatic deportation."
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