MIAMI, United States. – Some 5,000 migrants from various countries, including an unspecified number of Cubans, protested this Monday on the southern border of Mexico, where they entered by force to go to the offices of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR), according to international media reported.
In accordance with Forbes MexicoMost of the migrants are Haitians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Peruvians, Panamanians and other Central American countries.
The migrants have gathered since the weekend in the border city of Tapachula.
A Cuban migrant identified as Yanela denounced that thousands of people remained unanswered on the public highway and asked the authorities to organize migrants by country for the sake of order.
“We want papers to stay in Mexico legally and continue the journey to the northern border with the United States,” he told the EFE news agency.
Another Cuban, identified as Jordi Armando, also asked for the cooperation of the Mexican authorities to avoid chaos.
“We entered on December 31, we saw a large crowd of people, it becomes a real chaos and disorder, so it is important that the authorities take action on the matter, because this can get out of control,” he said. .
For their part, COMAR officials announced that they would only serve families with children and that other adults would have to wait their turn in line.
Cuba is experiencing an unprecedented migratory crisis, where not only nationals who travel to Nicaragua and undertake the journey to the southern border of the United States through Mexico are counted, but also the rafters intercepted by the Coast Guard of the northern country.
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