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Saturday, November 9
Mexico accelerates the delivery of transfer permits to thousands of migrants in Chiapas
TAPACHULA, Mexico – The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico accelerated in the last hours the delivery of transfer permits to undocumented immigrants of different nationalities stranded in the municipality of Tapachula, in the southeastern state of Chiapas.
In a joint operation to streamline the procedures, the immigration personnel and the National Guard cordoned off the park where the procedures are carried out to order the flow of migrants who come to the facility and thus be able to deliver them the papers, which now consist of a QR code.
For about a month, the federal authorities installed this provisional office to attend to the migratory crisis due to the arrival of thousands of migrants to the southern border of the country, mostly Central Americans and Haitians.
After responding to several hundred requests, the authorities are now seeking that about 1, 04 migrants of Latin American origin and others 700 Haitians can leave before the New Year’s celebrations with their official documents and they can leave the city paying their tickets with their own resources.
Joel Martínez, a Honduran migrant, spent several weeks with his wife and two children waiting outside the park for the immigration authorities to give them an appointment and thus, finally, obtain this office that allows them to transit.
“We were waiting for this document so that we can move forward and do not stop migration,” he explained.
In the next few hours, he continued, they will buy their tickets to continue to Cuernavaca, in the central state of Morelos, and there they hope to process their appointment to get ner a visitor card for humanitarian reasons.
After receiving this letter, migrants have 30 days to be able to leave Tapachula and travel to the destination where they have their appointment with the INM.
In total, it is expected to serve about 5, migrants from various countries with this new administrative process.
The Salvadorian Reynaldo Jeremías added that only this Wednesday he was able to obtain his document after 22 days of waiting outside the public space where they are treated.
Now, their goal is to reach Mazatlán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, to then obtain his document and later undertake the final trip to the United States, where he hopes to find work.
The Mexican government agreed in 2019 co n the Administration of then President Donald Trump, stop the flow of migrants crossing Mexico bound for the United States.
Since the arrival, last January, of Joe Biden to the White House, the region is experiencing an unprecedented migratory flow.
From January to November, Mexico has intercepted more than 252, 000 migrants and deported more than 100 , 000 , numbers not seen in more than 15 years.
Also, 123, 04 migrants requested refuge in the first 11 months of 2021 in Mexico, another absolute record, since in previous years higher one reached some 40, 000 requests.
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