Mexico has an easy way to save and accepts more than 95 percent of requests, the foreign minister said.
Applications for refugee population in Mexico have tripled this year compared to 2020, the government said, in view of the growing population. people traveling to the United States.
The the world received 123,187 requests in 2021, up from 41,230 last year, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters Tuesday, describing the increase as “huge”.
The Government and the United Nations were assisting the Mexico Commission for Refugee Assistance to deal with a residual programming, Ebrard said, adding that the agency needs more people and money.
Mexico has a simple asylum structure and approves more than 95 percent of programs, Ebrard added.
In recent months, tens of thousands of refugees and refugees fleeing poverty and violence have arrived in Mexico, where many are seeking refuge as they await trial. to enter the US.
Traffickers often hide their undocumented and unsuspecting refugees in their trucks. Guatemala to Mexico, from the northern border to the US border.
To highlight the dangers they face, a serious road accident earlier this month it left 56 people – mostly asylum seekers from Guatemala – dead after their car overturned.
The event was very interesting dangers that people face along the way to the US border, often in the hands of human traffickers known as coyotes.
Many asylum seekers have died in violence or accidents in Mexico over the past decade, as the US has observed. an incredible increase the number of people who want to cross the country to its southern border this year.
Most of the asylum seekers are from the Northern Triangle in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, who are experiencing gang violence and corruption, as well as population growth. poverty and unemployment, among others.
Dominga Tiniguar, a resident of Xepol village in Guatemala. Her son died in an accident on December 9 in Mexico. He was a farm worker who planned to earn a living in the US before returning to Guatemala.
“He was going to Chicago to work on building a house here in Xepol and buying land,” Tiniguar told Reuters, carrying a photo of his son, Elias Salvador Mateo Tiniguar.
This year has also seen a the number of asylum seekers in Haiti arriving in Mexico with the hope of crossing the US.
But the administration of US President Joe Biden maintained the principle of closure in the Trump administration known as Chapter 42. As a result of the coronavirus epidemic, this measure allows U.S. authorities to immediately deport more people who arrive at the border without correcting their wishes.
Biden leadership as well he revived another program was first set up by Donald Trump to ban immigrants from the US. The concept of “Stay in Mexico” forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico to listen to refugee stories in the US.
Activist groups have criticized the idea as putting people at risk in violent Mexican or rural towns. filthy border camps.
Number of Haitians want security in Mexico seven times the number between 2020 and 2021, from 5,935 complaints for 2020 to 47,494 between January and November 2021, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM).
The INM also recorded a significant increase in the number of Haitians entering the country outside the ports – from 3,891 in 2019 to 17,516 from January to October this year.
More than 190,000 undocumented foreign nationals were found in Mexico between January and September, according to authorities. About 74,300 people were deported.
