According to AFP, the migrants from Nepal, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia said they had arrived by boat at the eastern port of Bluefields, where their handlers led them to a hotel, telling them to wait there for a train. But there are no trains in Nicaragua in central America.
One of the undocumented migrants from Nepal, Laxman Khatri Chhetri, who was arrested late Saturday, told the authorities he had spent much of his savings to reach the American continent.
It was not immediately known how many Nepalis have been arrested.
"We suppose they were brought from Colombia to the island of San Andres and were then transferred to Bluefields, Nicaragua´s main Caribbean port, from which they had hoped to continue their journey to the United States to pursue the American dream," Deputy Commissioner Rolando Coulson told reporters in Managua, capital of Nicaragua.
The Colombian island of San Andres, located off Nicaragua´s Caribbean coast, is used as a transit point for undocumented migrants headed toward the United States, but many are cheated of their money and abandoned in Nicaragua, officials say.
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