“We hope that the country puts special emphasis on the fulfillment and adoption of measures to meet the problems indicated,” Mexican human rights organizations that participated in the evaluation sessions participated in pronouncement.
The UN Committee requested information to Mexico about its actions to investigate crimes and human rights violations against people in mobility.
He also asked to know the strategies to strengthen the search for missing migrants and to install the migrant search table, pending for three years.
However, the Mexican State did not answer these questions, although it recognized slopes in the design of public policies for the crisis of disappearances, civil organizations said.
In addition, the Government recognized the need to strengthen the foreign search and research mechanism, so that families of missing migrants access transnational justice mechanisms.
Organizations recalled that there are judgments for migrants massacres in Mexico. In 2010, 72 migrants were killed in Tamaulipas, where San Fernando clandestine graves were also found in 2011. Another massacre happened in Cadereyta, Nuevo León in 2012.
On April 7 and 8, the UN Committee on Migratory Workers evaluated the Mexican State. The absence of @Fgrmexico and the @Inami_mxkeys in immigration policy, it was notorious.
Organizations exposed serious violations and omissions of the State. pic.twitter.com/h2dexjego
– Foundation for Justice (@fjedd)
April 10, 2025
However, the Mexican State did not detail the results of the investigations initiated by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) for these facts, nor the advances in the identification and sanction of those responsible.
The Government acknowledged that the judicialization of crimes against migrants is low in the country. From 2019 to 2025, 53 sentences were issued, 10 of them absolute. While from 2018 to 2023 15 convictions were issued for forced disappearances, although without specifying whether the victims were migrants.
According to organizations, the UN Committee showed its concern about the effects of the militarization of immigration control, with cases of migrant murders at the hands of the armed forces.
The Mexican government was also pointed out by not adopting policies to avoid the repetition of serious violations of the human rights of migrants, or to prevent extortion, kidnappings and trafficking, crimes of those who are usually victims.
Other serious cases for which Mexico was questioned were the massacre of 17 migrants in Camargo, Tamaulipas, in 2021; The murder of Cuban Cristobal Cobreiro at the hands of the National Guard that same year, in Chiapas; The murder of Victoria Salazar, originally from El Salvador, by municipal police of Quintana Roo, and the fire of the migratory stay of Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, in 2023.
Among the associations presented by Mexico’s earrings regarding migrants disappearance, and who also sent shadow reports to the committee, are Foundation for Justice, the Women’s Institute in Migration, Without Borders, Fray Matías Matías Human Rights Center, Asylum Access and the working group on immigration policy.
