Mexico and the United States tightened their immigration measures to reduce the flow of Cubans before the end of Title 42. Since last Friday, the Mexican National Institute of Migration (INM), denounced for acts of extortion, threats of deportation and violation of the rights human rights, stopped granting “safe-conducts that allow free transit through the country”.
Through a statement, the Government of Mexico also reported the “closure of 33 migratory stays at the national level”, places in which several Cubans have been detained despite having refugee status or having stay permits issued by the Commission Mexican Aid to Refugees (Comar).
At the beginning of May, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) ordered Migration to repair the damage caused to a family of four Cubans that it deported in November 2022 without verifying the legality of their documents.
Several groups of activists and defenders of the rights of migrants warned that mass detentions can become violations of human rights by not having a place to accommodate foreigners.
Paris Lezama, director of the organization against human trafficking El Pozo de Vida and Member of the Board of Directors of Esperanza Migrante, pointed out that behind this measure is “returning to a policy of immigration containment,” that is, that these people “do not reach the border” of Mexico with the US.
The independent senator and opponent of the Government, Emilio Álvarez Icaza, warned that if Mexico does not attend to the “thousands of migrants” that the US is returning, “a humanitarian crisis will break out with problems of hunger, with health and security problems “.
One day before the elimination of Title 42 in the US on May 11, the Customs and Border Protection Office detained 11,126 migrants in the border strip, while on the Mexican side Migration reported the rescue (arrest) of 5,499 irregular foreigners.
Last Thursday, Mexico accepted the return of 17 Cubans, 909 Venezuelans, 15 Guatemalans and one Haitian. That day, almost 30,000 migrants were waiting in the border states to cross the Rio Grande and others were waiting for the response to their CBP One request to appear for the asylum appointment in US territory.
On the other hand, the US government reiterated this Sunday to the Cuban and Haitian rafters that if they are detained at sea, “they will be disabled for humanitarian parole processes” in an “indefinite” way.
The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed the deportation this Monday of thousands of migrants to a dozen countries, including Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, with the new immigration policy established after the lifting of Title 42.
After the end of the health emergency last Thursday night, the United States stopped applying Title 42, which allowed undocumented migrants to be expelled on the pretext of covid-19, but established other restrictions on asylum applications in the border and began deporting through another regulation known as Title 8.
Unlike Title 42, Title 8 does allow migrants to request asylum upon arrival at the border, but they have to meet several requirements, including having applied for that condition in the countries through which they have passed, or else they may be deported. quickly.
Irregular border crossings have been reduced by nearly 50% in the last three days, from 10,000 a day to 5,000, according to National Security data.
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