From January to July, 67 thousand refugee applications; those of Haitians fall and Hondurans go to first place

From the Editorial Office

Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 2, 2022, p. 8

At the end of July, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) reported that 67,103 people applied for refuge, that is, just over half of the 130,000 applications for the whole of last year.

In the first seven months of the year, Honduran migrants are the ones who have submitted the most applications, with 16,815, followed by Cubans, with 11,667, according to the latest report from the commission.

For their part, the applications of Haitians fell compared to last year: in 2021 Comar received 51,058 refugee applications, while in the period from January to July of this year there were only 9,229.

They secure a truck with 45 migrants in Veracruz

Separately, the National Institute of Migration (INM) located in Veracruz 45 migrants (originating from Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Cuba, Bangladesh, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua) who were traveling crowded in a hidden and unventilated compartment in a truck, in which it appeared to be transporting industrial waste, the agency said.

“When opening the rear door of the cargo transport, only crushed metal sheets, tubes, lids and cans were visible; however, behind it people’s voices could be heard. In the lower right part of the wall that formed the industrial waste, a passage was uncovered in which only one person could enter or exit – on his knees, “the INM added in a statement.

The driver and the unit were made available to the ministerial authorities of the state.