The community of humanitarian aid to Nicaraguans in the United States Texas Nicaraguan Community denounced through its social networks the “lack of management” on the part of the Consulate to repatriate the bodies of citizens who have died in the North American country.
“Two families who have the bodies of Kelvin Torrez and Melvin Zelaya in the Webb County Morgue in Laredo Texas, based on information from the funeral home, were already notified that since last week the morgue procedures were already completed, and they needed the consulate to do the steps to deliver the bodies to the funeral home and to take care of the repatriation. Since last week, Mr. Samuel Trejos, consul of Houston, Texas, has not completed these procedures, “says the page of Nicaraguans in the United States.
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They assure that funeral home staff went three times last week to the Morgue offices, but they continue to receive negative responses due to lack of efforts. “We make a call to the Government and Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua, take action, and soon,” refers to the publication on the organization’s Facebook page.
The Nicaraguans remind the consul that “the steps are within his functions. Families call the Consulate and they never answer, they send emails and they are not answered. Remember, that once a Nicaraguan consul in Houston was removed, with the collection of signatures. We are going to be closely monitoring it.”
Diplomat Samuel Trejos is in charge of the Nicaraguan Consulate in Houston, Texas, in the United States; and by law, the Nicaraguan delegation is the one who must intervene in the process of repatriation of the bodies of the compatriots who died in North American territory, however “it has been an entity that is not very accessible and little collaborator with the information.”
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As revealed by the statistics of the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)Between January and July of this year, 96,193 Nicaraguans were detained at US borders, a record number that triples what was recorded in 2021.
According to CBP statistical data, arrests per month exceed ten thousand cases, reaching the highest peak in May with 19,087 arrests. This behavior is far from what was reported in the same period of 2021, when less than ten thousand were registered in the first seven months, with the exception of July, which accounted for 13,509.
But the figure of 96,193 Nicaraguans who managed to reach that country irregularly may be even higher if one takes into account those who enter regularly and those who do not manage to reach their destination due to different circumstances. The socio-political and economic crisis in the country has exacerbated the migratory wave since last year, a situation that has left a considerable number of deaths of Nicaraguans who try to arrive through risk areas.
