The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) attends to the situation of 22 Cubans who are being held in the Acayucan immigration station, in the state of Veracruz, which was blocked last Thursday due to a protest by relatives and friends of the migrants. “Our relatives have been here for 28 days,” he denounces 14ymedio Mikel Hernández, who had to travel from the US to seek the release of his sister and niece.
“All the legal parameters have been made, but they (the authorities) violate them. They do not give an answer because they say that the folder is somewhere else, in Córdova,” says this Cuban who, along with 14 other compatriots, parked their vehicles and prevented access from the main gate of the migratory station.
Nayeli Herrera, another of the protesters, assures that in the immigration center there are people who have been there for 45 days and “they do not give them an answer to anything”, in addition to being kept incommunicado despite the fact that they have letters presented by their lawyer.
“They cannot keep them for more than 36 hours because they did not commit any crime,” he tells this newspaper the lawyer Carlos Alvarado. “As long as we are not allowed to enter the process, it will be stopped, this is an injustice.”
The Mexican authorities also reported that on March 2, a bus carrying 62 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Honduras and Guatemala was intercepted at a control center in the state of Veracruz.
“They cannot keep them for more than 36 hours because they did not commit any crime”
This Thursday, Migration reported that it is preparing the transfer of 80 Cubans to Tapachula, in the south of the country and a city on the border with Guatemala, who were detained last Wednesday in the town of Santa Rosa Panzacola, in the municipality of Oaxaca de Juárez, state of Oaxaca.
“Migrants will be given a safe-conduct and will have 20 days to regularize their immigration status because they were detained in a migrant smuggling event,” a Migration agent told this newspaper. “If they don’t and they are arrested again, they will be deported.”
The group of Cubans, made up of nine minors, 26 women and 45 men, would be taken along with 21 other migrants from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the limits of Mexico City and from there to the state of San Luis Potosí, to arrive in Tamaulipas next Sunday, where “they had planned to go to the Reynosa-Hidalgo border bridge to request asylum in the US,” according to data provided to this newspaper by the Oaxaca Ministry of Public Security.
The migrants were discovered by motorcycle police after being warned that a bus had been parked for several hours outside the Elsa subdivision, in Santa Rosa Panzacola. “When checking, they found dozens of foreigners crowded into a unit with capacity for 35 people and another 25 migrants in the luggage rack,” he explained to 14ymedio a state security source.
The driver and two other people were transferred to the Public Ministry on charges of alleged migrant smuggling. The bus was taken by crane to the public security facilities.
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