The Mexican agency received 86,621 refugee applications in the first three quarters of 2022. Of these, 8,665, that is, about 10%, were citizens of Venezuela.
This Monday, January 2, at least 5,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, Haitians and Cubans, protested in Tapachula, a border city in southern Mexico that borders Guatemala, and forced their way into the offices of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR).
Since the night of the first Sunday and day of the year, the migrants had concentrated on the outskirts of that entity and had closed the street that leads directly to their facilities, lining up to be assigned the immigration appointment the next day.
The foreigners argued that this form of demonstration is due to the fact that they got tired of waiting for the Mexican authorities to attend to their asylum requests and asked the Government of Mexico to organize people to receive immigration benefits by country, so that There may be greater order and agility in your procedures.
“We entered on December 31, we saw a large crowd of people, it becomes a real chaos and disorder, so it is important that the authorities take action on the matter, because this can get out of control,” he commented. to the EFE news agency a Cuban migrant named Jordi Armando.
The Comar received more than 111,000 asylum requests in the first 11 months of last year, with which 2022 would close as the second year with the most applications in Mexico since there is a record.
In October 2022, one of the Comar officials, Andrés Mortero, in charge of assigning appointments in the office, indicated that they have attended more than 1,800, but even so they seem to be unable to cope.
In the first three quarters of the year, Mexico received 86,621 refugee applications at the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar), of which 8,665, about 10%, were from citizens of Venezuela.
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