Mexico Detains Two Iranian Migrants on FBI Watchlist

Mexican immigration authorities detained a group of five Middle Eastern migrants who were trying to reach the U.S. border. Two of those migrants were reportedly listed on an FBI watchlist.

The arrests took place last week along the highway that connects the Mexican cities of Tecate and Tijuana, a statement from Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) revealed. Agents found the migrants at a checkpoint along that highway where Mexican authorities spotted a vehicle with Mexican license plates being driven by a Haitian man. The vehicle contained five Middle-Eastern men who Mexican authorities claimed had the intention of illegally crossing into the U.S.

Mexican officials reported that the five Middle Eastern men were from Iran and that two of them were on an FBI watchlist. Mexican officials did not reveal details about the FBI’s interest in the two Iranian men.

#Comunicado Derivado de la coordinación interinstitucional, @INAMI_mx y @GN_MEXICO_ rescatan a cinco personas iraníes en las inmediaciones de la caseta El Cimarrón, sobre la carretera Tijuana-Tecate en #BC y se detuvo al probable traficante.
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— INM (@INAMI_mx) December 8, 2023

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Agents with the INM responded to the location and took the five migrants to a detention center in Tijuana. It remains unclear whether Mexican authorities will deport the five men. Mexican authorities also arrested the Haitian driver of the vehicle and are expected to prosecute him on human smuggling charges, the INM statement revealed.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.