Venezuelans made a plant to denounce “the refusal” of the mature administration of managing repatriation flights. However, the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said they were already reactivated. Migrants pointed out that they will intensify the protests
A group of Venezuelan migrants in southern Mexico protested to demand that repatriation flights be reactivated since they want to return to Venezuela, after the hardening of the migratory policies implemented by the Donald Trump government.
They made a plant to denounce “the negative” of the mature administration of managing repatriation flights. However, the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said they were already reactivated.
Venezuelans, who represent a quarter of irregular migration in Mexico, have intensified their claims around the 21st century station of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, the largest city of the border with Central America, where they exclaim: “We want to return!”
Thais Aguilar, protester, told Efe that as of this week “day and night” outside the 21st century, one of the largest migratory centers in Mexico will be concentrated, until they have a response on humanitarian flights.
“I ask the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to help us and please enable more humanitarian flights and she speaks with the president, Nicolas Maduro, so that there are more humanitarian flights for Tapachula, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Mexico City,” he said.
The migrants were stranded after the policies of the US president, Donald Trump, as mass deportations and the end of the ‘CBP One’ application of the Office of Customs and Border Protection that allowed to request asylum in the United States from southern Mexico.
On April 16, migrants They performed another protestFacing the facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula. The protesters demanded help and the activation of humanitarian flights that allow them to return to Venezuela.
With banners that prayed messages such as “Help, Tapachula aircraft!” And “we want to return to our country, President Maduro!”, Women, men and older adults expressed their despair after months of waiting without being able to move north or have the resources to return by their own means.
Mexico received 24,413 deportees from the United States in the first eight weeks of Trump’s new presidency, including 4,567 foreigners, according to the latest report offered by Sheinbaum, who has promised help to manage its regularization or return to his country.
With information from Swissinfo.ch
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*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
