Mexico City/The National Human Rights Commission (Cndh) eliminated without explanation the request to the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) and the National Migration Institute (INM) to expedite the procedures for migrants stranded in Tapachula. “The document made reference to violations that were impossible to repair and confirmed the irregularities of government agencies,” he tells 14ymedio the lawyer José Luis Pérez.
The authorities have not given an explanation as to why they have deleted the document published on the Commission’s website, which said: “CNDH urges COMAR and INM to expedite procedures in favor of migrants in Tapachula.”
The official document was a “call seeking to prevent serious effects on the integrity, health and legal security of those awaiting immigration resolution,” according to the newspaper. Chiapas Alert.
The lawyer specified that since Claudia Sheinbaum became president, 18 migrant caravans have left Tapachula. “They let them organize, move forward and, according to the protection of immigration agents, but these mobilizations were dissolved between Chiapas and Oaxaca.”
The lawyer specified that since Claudia Sheinbaum became president, 18 migrant caravans have left Tapachula.
Figures from the Center for Human Dignification indicate that 60,000 migrants are stranded on the southern border, thousands of Cubans among them. The lawyer recalls that the crisis in the region worsened with the closure of the United States since the arrival of Donald Trump, last January, and the cancellation of the CBP One program.
“If you add to this the migrants deported by the United States, among them Cubans, who have been received by the Sheinbaum Administration, people who are left abandoned without papers or options, Chiapas is the epicenter of a migration crisis.”
The Migration Policy, Registration and Identity of Persons Unit confirms to this newspaper that thousands of these migrants have been located in the municipalities of Huixtla, Suchiate, Tapachula, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Salto de Agua.
Pérez, who took the call outside Comar in Tapachula, denounced “the ineptitude and negligence” of the head of Comar, Carmen Yadira de los Santos Robledo. “Migrants are summoned and spend hours under the sun because the tent they put up is insufficient, and all so they are told to reschedule and wait for an email.”
Last July, the Center for Human Dignification denounced the delay in the processes that Comar had. “We demand that they be treated in accordance with the law, the law of asylum and complementary protection and refuge.” In addition, reference was made to the fact that migrants “do not have money to pay for lawyers.”
“No institution or agency that has to do with the immigration issue is responsible,” the Center added.
