Emir Olivares Alonso
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, December 21, 2021, p. 4
The National Institute of Migration (INM) yesterday issued the first humanitarian visas for about thirty people from the caravan that just arrived in Mexico City, which began the process of regularization in the country of these foreigners.
However, the paperwork occurred with some bitterness, as the federal agency in charge of immigration policy reported that it is only able to serve 30 people a day, which generated discontent in the 350 foreigners who showed up at the institute’s headquarters. and they demanded that they be received yesterday and expedite the procedures. We already want to go
some pointed out. Others more launched: If we finish today the caravan disintegrates
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According to the latest cut, the contingent is made up of 515 migrants –of them, just over a hundred are children and adolescents–, which is why they considered that with just 30 procedures a day, it will take more than three weeks to complete the process.
We do not understand. Does the INM really have the capacity to serve only 30? Please, what they don’t have is will! They want to keep the caravan kidnapped in Mexico City. You have to solve; as soon as everyone has the document, the caravan can be dissolved
emphasized Irineo Mujica, spokesperson for migrants and leader of the organization Pueblo sin Fronteras.
According to the organizers of the exodus, 385 people want a visitor visa for humanitarian reasons, since their wish is to reach the United States, and 130 permanent residence permits to settle in Mexico.
Despite the complaints, the INM remained unshakeable and only served the first 30 migrants, giving priority to family units.
The institute’s legal deputy commissioner, Alejandro Tagle Marroquín, argued that due to the caravan’s requests, the procedures would take time, since not only will they be given a visitor’s card for humanitarian reasons, but processes will be carried out to open a file for them. , grant them the CURP, support their legal situation in the country and alert all the agency’s offices in the states –particularly in the north– so that the document is renewable.
After several hours of procedures, Rubí Elizabeth and her family were the first to obtain the humanitarian visa. This young Honduran, her husband and their two children (an eight-month-old baby and a two-year-old boy) left their country since the end of June. For more than five months they have experienced various hardships, but yesterday they felt hope again.
“They received us very well; They gave us the CURP, the resolution and the visa. We feel very happy. We are looking forward to moving forward. We are going to move to the border, there we are going to stay for a while, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
