The storm left eleven people dead in Nicaragua, eight in Costa Rica and three in Honduras, in addition to several people missing
The Mexico office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees believes the country could receive 20.000 requests by year's end
Recent immigration measures hit the region with concerns of deportations and remittances
The end of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, which allowed any Cuban who reached U.S. soil to stay, but returned any picked up at sea, took effect immediately
Rights groups estimate 30,000 migrants, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, are working in bars in shopping streets and red light districts in the bustling city of Tapachula, Chiapas.
Mexico expects a sharp increase in people seeking asylum from Central America next year, fleeing gang warfare and poverty in their home countries.
Criminals used the service at the rural roads south of Saltillo.
Some 3,423 people, most from El Salvador and Honduras, sought asylum in Mexico in 2015.
Two-thirds of the countries in North, Central and South America routinely use such laws to silence dissent and keep information from their citizens.
Migrants are trying to cross now instead of facing tighter policing.