The Mexican immigration authorities that last Thursday detained a group of Cubans with parole humanitarian organizations are threatening to deport them.
It is an “illogical thing,” says Luciano Sánchez, father of Luis Ángel Sánchez, one of the detained migrants, “because he has a safe-conduct for 18 days that the same Mexican authorities gave him and his travel permit.”
in conversation with 14ymedio, the man stressed that before boarding the flight in Tapachula (Chiapas), it took three days to review his son’s documentation. “Since they wanted some money and since they didn’t get it, that’s why they arrested him,” denounces Luciano.
Along with Luis Ángel, another of the island’s nationals imprisoned in the Las Agujas immigration station (Mexico City) who has been identified is Noelvis La O Pereira. Both are part of a group of seven that they were taken off an Aeroméxico plane that stopped at the Mexico City International Airport and subsequently detained. Five were released this Monday. “There is no reason for him to be imprisoned,” insists Luciano Sánchez.
On Sunday, after paying, Luis Ángel contacted his father, asking him to do whatever was in his power to “get him out as soon as possible” from the Las Agujas immigration station, a place where they are kept overcrowded.
In the midst of the despair of the relatives for not knowing about the detainees, a law firm contacted them and offered to release them in exchange for $5,000. In an audio sent to this newsroom, the alleged lawyer is heard saying that in the case of one of the Cuban women, her arrest was due to the fact that she presented false documents. And yet she is one of the freed.
“What they are waiting for is that they give green light to return them there (Cuba) and logically, because they will be waiting for her there so that when she comes down they can arrest her to initiate criminal proceedings,” the lawyer warned them. This Monday after the young women were released, the Migration agents told them that everything it had been a “misunderstanding”.
Noelvis La O Pereira also has humanitarian parole and a safe-conduct that he processed in Migration and is valid for three months. “He has all his documentation and they detained him” for no reason, denounced Lisbey Rodríguez, a relative of La O.
The lawyer and defender of migrants José Luis Pérez specified to 14ymedio that in this case “article 37 of the Migration Law“, since these people have a safe-conduct and also parole humanitarian for the US The National Institute of Migration (INM), lamented the litigant, “for 20 years it has carried out an unconstitutional practice that violates the human rights of immigrants.”
Pérez denounced the INM for the “perverse game” that it has established against the Cubans. “On the one hand, the representative offices grant them a safe-conduct in accordance with article 63 of the Regulation of the Migration Law and on the other hand, at the checkpoints or inspection filters installed on highways and airports, the agents assume that the documents carried by these people are false.”
The lawyer and defender of migrants José Luis Pérez denounced the INM for the “perverse game” that it has established against Cubans
On January 28, Pérez recalled that Migration agents tried to extort Mirsa Fernández Gómez at the Viva México checkpoint in Tapachula despite presenting a safe-conduct valid for 20 days and an amparo. In the end she was allowed to follow her route to the US.
On January 21, the Cuban Maidaly Martínez Rodríguez was arrested in Tapachula (Chiapas). “This person was detained despite the fact that he had a humanitarian visa that he was given on January 16 and is valid for one year. He had to take refuge to be able to board a flight from Tapachula to Mexico City and prevent the stop,” the lawyer stressed.
The defender of migrants showed that the officials use the ignorance of Mexican laws that Cubans and any migrant have and without easy prey to stop them. The agents “know that the migrant does not have a form of evidence to object that their documents are false.”
For Cubans who must pass through Mexican territory on their journey, he recalled that the moment they are detained for allegedly having false documents, “they have the right to demand what is known as double verification.”
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