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Mexico assists 29,000 minor migrants in 2008

Other News Materials 31 December 2008 09:15 (UTC +04:00)

The Mexican government have assisted nearly 29,000 Mexican minor migrants in the first 10 months of 2008, reported the country's National Immigration Institute (INM) on Tuesday, xinhua reported.

A total of 28,456 Mexican minors were repatriated from the United States from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2008.

The INM, a unit of the government of Mexico dependent on the Secretariat of the Interior, oversees the delivery of those minors as well as their integration into the original family nucleus or communities.

Among the minors, 3,104 were children under 12 years old.

Children and teenagers under 18 and in vulnerable conditions received help from the Inter-institutional Program for Attention to Border Minor (PIAFM), said the INM.

The INM also assisted 4,704 Central American minors repatriated from Mexico in the same period.

The INM established seven agencies to help repatriate children and teenagers traveling alone, where they got food, clothes and a psychological evaluation. Authorities will also review their legal situation, contact their families and send them to a shelter if no family members were found.

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