From the Writing
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 12, 2022, p. 4
Prior to the bilateral meeting that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hold in Washington with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, 87 civil society organizations issued a statement urging both governments to focus their discussion on migration on human rights. , protection and expansion of legal avenues.
In a letter signed by groups such as the Institute for Women in Migration (Imumi), Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (Chirla), Asylum Access Mexico, Human Rights Watch, Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America-CRLN and Washington Office on Latin America (Wola), among others, lamented that despite the pronouncements and public commitments of the two countries, ineffective and illegal policies and practices based on deterrence continue, contrary to international refugee law and endangering the population. migrant.
Among the complaints collected, the organizations have documented at least 10,318 violent events in Mexico of kidnappings and other brutal attacks
against people detained or removed under Title 42 since the start of the Biden administration.
In addition, hundreds of expulsion flights with tens of thousands of people have been sent from the United States to Brazil, Colombia, Central America and Haiti in recent months, without giving them the opportunity to seek protection, violating national and international law
. Only about 4,000 Haitians were expelled on 36 flights during May.
Similarly, various organizations have documented how migrants and asylum seekers who arrive in southern Mexico they face a series of government actions and omissions that leave people struggling to survive and vulnerable to abuse and arbitrary treatment
.
They also warned that have documented very worrying incidents of attacks by the Mexican National Guard and the National Institute of Migration that beat the Afro-descendant migrant population, separate families and use excessive force
.
They related these strategies to the recent tragedy in San Antonio, Texas, in which 53 migrants died in a trailer, or the death of 55 in Chiapas in December.
