Mexican migrant worker missing from Osoyoos area: RCMP

Advocates for migrant workers in Canada are concerned about a lack of information from authorities after the disappearance of a 30-year-old Mexican national who was working at a farm in Osoyoos.

Carlos Tomas Aranda Burgoin, who is from Oaxaca, Mexico, was last seen on July 7 and friends and family back home are worried.

Osoyoos RCMP say Aranda Burgoin is five-foot-10, 150 pounds, with brown hair and beard, brown eyes and a mole on his neck. He was last seen wearing grey pants, a green and black hoodie and black running shoes.

He “has only been in Canada for one month,” said RCMP Sgt. Jason Bayda in a release on Monday. “Police are very concerned for Carlos Aranda Burgoin’s health and well-being and friends and family report that it is out of character for him to be out of contact for this long.”

Edna Lalonde of the Dignidad Migrante Society, an organization that helps and represents temporary foreign workers in B.C., says a close friend contacted the society about the disappearance.