Migration still does not deliver the humanitarian visa which he offered on Tuesday to a group of 17 Cubans. “Turn around the following week. The service is suspended because they are going to check the system,” an immigration agent told Wilmer Rodríguez at the access to the Tapachula Olympic Stadium, located in Chiapas. “This is a hoax. Mexico broke the group and now they have us stuck.”
Rodríguez arrived in Tapachula 14 days ago. He paid $ 20 to be crossed from Guatemala to Mexico on the Suchiate River. Originally from Holguín, the migrant washes cars on the street to earn some money and in a kitchen they give him food in exchange for helping with cleaning. “When they said about the visa, I no longer joined the caravan. They promised that it would be delivery on Wednesday, but the Haitians started the disorganization and it seems that they have already canceled this.”
Added to the lack of attention are “discriminatory acts” and “extortion,” he told 14ymedio Manuel Martinez. “Upon leaving the stadium the agents approached me and asked me for $ 600 to attend to me. I will not wait any longer, I will join those who are already moving,” to regroup the second caravan. The first is in Veracruz and is moving towards the United States.
Annoyed at not being served, approximately 60 Haitians blocked the highway that connects Tapachula with the airport and Puerto Chiapas on Wednesday. “This is getting out of control, yesterday there were shots from a civilian because they blocked the road,” said Martínez.
Annoyed by not being served, approximately 60 Haitians blocked the road that connects Tapachula with the airport and Puerto Chiapas on Wednesday
At night, in a post from the National Institute of Migration, images of the transfer of foreigners to different states were disseminated, as reported, to “begin the process of migratory regularization” to 2,500 foreigners. However, the director of the Center for Human Dignification, Luis García Villagrán, who also heads the group of migrants in Chiapas, doubts the good will of the Mexican government.
García assured that the deployment of members of the National Guard in Chiapas and Veracruz is to “stop the migrants” and “frighten us.” This Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is not congruent with what it says” and seems to serve the United States. “Ask Joe Biden to open the border and give work and see, he deploys a guard of repressors and murderers,” he mentioned in allusion to murder of two Cubans by members of the National Guard last October.
The visa they offer, Garcia emphasizes, is the so-called visitor card for humanitarian reasons, but it does not prevent migrants from being detained on their way to the border. “They are deceiving the people” the migrant route in Mexico has become a “struggle to survive” the checkpoints, drug cartels, extortion, fraud and human trafficking.
The National Human Rights Commission released a report this month in which it announced that at least 70,000 migrants were “victims of trafficking and kidnapping in Mexico” between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2020.
In addition, Mexico has detected more than 190,000 undocumented persons from January to September, about three times the number in 2020, in addition to having deported almost 74,300.
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