The Honduran National Police detained this Tuesday an alleged coyote whose name was not disclosed, in the municipality of Trojes, department of El Paraíso, bordering Nicaragua, who was transporting four Cubans in a pickup truck. pickup.
The detainee, a 28-year-old Honduran, was handed over to the authorities of the Public Ministry on charges of human trafficking. The Cubans were handed over to the National Migration Institute (INM), reported the Honduran National Police.
“During their passage through Honduras, migrants face extortion from the authorities, robbery and deceit from traffickers,” he warns 14ymedio layman Rigoberto from the Jesus Is Alive evangelization center of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Danlí, Honduras.
The religious assures that the department of El Paraíso is in a “critical situation” with the average entry through this border of 200 migrants a day. “People without money who, if they are detained, take away their documents and to get them back they are told that they must pay a fine of between 218 and 238 dollars“.
Migrants, “especially Cubans,” who arrive at the evangelization center are informed that these “supposed fines are a hoax.” The sanction established in article 104 numeral 1 of the Immigration and Immigration Law “It was suspended” last August, specifies the layman.
Cubans have denounced that even with safe-conducts that allow them to travel freely through Honduras, the police detain them at checkpoints and force them to pay 20 dollars
The island’s nationals have denounced that even with safe-conducts that allow them to travel freely through Honduras, the police detain them at checkpoints and forces them to pay 20 dollars.
The Bishop of Danlí, José Antonio Canales, blamed the authorities for generating a crisis in evangelization centers. “That fine is unpayable for many and is causing crowds in our shelters.”
El Paraíso has become one of the main routes used by migrants, mainly from Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti, to continue towards the United States. “It is necessary that the Government seek policies of migratory flexibility,” he declared to the portal Online Defenders the departmental delegate of the National Human Rights Commissioner of El Paraíso, William Alvarado.
A total of 131,773 migrants have entered Honduras irregularly this year, 55,245 Cubans among them, according to figures as of Tuesday from the National Migration Institute. The income, according to the INM report, is being presented by Danlí, Trojes, Choluteca, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
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