According to the Mexican newspaper The DayPresident Claudia Sheinbaum ordered that the three Migrant Integration Centers, managed by the Ministry of Welfare on the northern border, receive migrants who lost their appointments due to the cancellation of the CBP One system.
“Now that the application they used to apply for asylum in the United States has been canceled, we have received these people in these three centers, located in Tijuana, Baja California; Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Matamoros and Tamaulipas, so that they remain there until they make their life decisions,” said the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel.
He also said that each emigrant will be given the Paisano Welfare Card, with 2,000 pesos to support their transfer.
Likewise, the Mexican newspaper highlights, they will be incorporated into social programs and supported to obtain jobs, “especially with the maquila sector. And they will receive temporary asylum.”
Montiel explained that since January 2019, nearly 56,000 people have been received in these centers, who are provided with accommodation, food and education for the children for the duration of their stay.
President Sheinbaum indicated that if foreign emigrants voluntarily accept to be repatriated to their nations of origin, “there are schemes with the United Nations institutions to be able to collaborate so that they can return to their countries through the Migration Institute.”
He reiterated that the number of people arriving at the northern border has decreased significantly.
“It is a job to which we have paid a lot of attention since we came to government. In a humanitarian way, people who arrive in the south of our country are guided and given options in our country.”
But if they voluntarily decide to return to their nations, they do so, “because today there is no point in them reaching the northern border, given the conditions that President Trump’s new administration has posed.”
