The governments of Guatemala and
Mexico said on Thursday that between them, almost 300 of their citizens had been detained in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi as part of sweeping U.S.
immigration operations.
Guatemala's foreign ministry said in a statement that 176 of its citizens had been arrested in the raids in Mississippi, 142 of them men and 34 women.
Separately, the Honduran foreign ministry said that two Hondurans so far had been confirmed among those detained.