Migrant caravan asks for help from the human rights commission to regularize in Mexico
The migrant caravan in the Mexican capital.
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For: EFE
Representatives of a migrant caravan that travels through Mexico to the US met with the president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)
, Rosario Piedra, to ask that he intercede with the Government so that regularize your immigration status .
“We are grateful and we trust the CNDH fully. It will be a good way to dialogue with the federal government ”, explained to the press at the end of the meeting Irineo Mujica , an activist from Pueblos Sin Fronteras accompanying the caravan.
Some want to stay in Mexico
The caravan of migrants, mostly Central Americans and Haitians, He left in October from Tapachula (Chiapas, southern Mexico), on the border with Guatemala, due to the slowness of immigration procedures and the lack of employment in that municipality, and arrived walking this week to Mexico City, where he installed a camp.
Mujica explained that not all members of the caravan intend to reach the United States since many want permanent residence and work in Mexico.
“There is a will for the caravan to dissolve here in Mexico City”, asserted.
The activist stated that the humanitarian visas than the National Institute of Migration (INM) has offered the caravan throughout its journey “they have no legal value” and insisted that the migrants want permanent residence and work permits.
Mujica perceived from the president of the CNDH that she has the “commitment” that “the caravan ends on good terms” and support is given to the migrants who have been arrested on the way to the capital.
The caravan seeks similar meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the National Migration Institute and the offices of United Nations in Mexico .
Search for solutions
After meeting n with migrants, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) announced that it will assist in the management and arrangement of meetings with officials of these secretariats.
He noted that the meetings will be held with the objective of “ seek solutions to the various problems faced by migrants during their transit through Mexico. ”
As well as issues related to the processing of humanitarian visas, recognition of refugee status , for whom it is appropriate, and other possible procedures that contribute to solutions that do not violate people’s rights in the context of international mobility.
In addition, he said that will request to the authorities that respect the humanitarian visas of the pe migrant people, and are not removed or destroyed during their transit through Mexican territory.
The CNDH found in a report that immigration agents made a “ excessive and disproportionate use of force during operations” to slow down the advance of the caravan.
Since Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House last January, the region has experienced an unprecedented migratory flow, as Mexico has intercepted to 228,100 migrants and has deported 82, 627 from January to October 2021, numbers not seen in more than 15 years. What’s more, 123,000 migrants requested refuge in the first 11 months of the 2021 in Mexico, another absolute record, since in previous years there were some 19, 000 requests.
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