Some 500 migrants wait in Huixtla to obtain permits

Elio Henriquez

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, July 4, 2022, p. 6

San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chis., Around 500 migrants, most of them Venezuelans, who are part of the caravan that left Tapachula last Friday, remained this Sunday at the Huixtla immigration station, waiting to be attended by the authorities. migratory so that they deliver documents and can move to the northern border, reported Jonathan Ávila on behalf of the foreigners.

He added that the National Migration Institute (INM) suspended work yesterday, but offered them that it will resume activities on Monday and they will be treated. Approximately 500 people remain at the Huixtla migratory station, including me, who have not been given permission because the Migration authorities did not work today (Sunday); They told us that this Monday they will attend to usHe stated in a telephone interview.

He commented that as of Saturday night, approximately 3,600 people who participated in the caravan had received documents and headed to the bus terminals in Huixtla, looking for some way to move to the northern border, to then try to enter the United States. Joined.

Most of the 500 people (who are waiting to obtain documentation) are in the immigration facilities, but there is too much sun and too much rain, so women and children are sufferingsaid the migrant from Venezuela, who travels with his wife and three minors.

What the Immigration told us is that we wait until Monday, which is when they work to deliver the permits to those that were pending.he reiterated.

Ávila, who deserted from the National Guard of his country of origin with the intention of migrating to the United States, reported that Migration’s treatment of Venezuelans is horrible; that is not a secret to anyone. The situation is too difficult for us.

In the same way, he said that the Huixtla parish, in charge of the priest Heyman Vázquez Medina, provided water, bread and food to the people who are in the migratory facilities on Saturday afternoon, because the cleric I knew that people no longer had anything to eat.