EFE.- The Government of Mexico this Wednesday restarted the humanitarian return flights to Haiti and in a first trip transferred 70 migrants from the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco to Port-au-Prince.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) reported that authorities from the Ministries of the Interior (Segob) and the SRE agreed with representatives of the Republic of Haiti to initiate “the voluntary assisted return of migrants established in Mexico to their country of origin”.
Given this, a first group of Haitian migrants who were settled in Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Hidalgo and Tabasco, were transferred this day; including 16 women, 13 minors and 41 men.
The SRE indicated in the note that these actions are part of the agreements of the permanent dialogue table, installed last September 21 at the central offices of the National Institute of Migration (INM), between representatives of the Government of Mexico and Haiti, “In order to meet the needs of people of Haitian origin, located in the national territory.”
The migratory crisis led by Haitian migrants has spread throughout Mexico with thousands of people stranded on the southern border and others living in the north of the country as they seek to cross into the United States.
The region has experienced an unprecedented migratory wave since the beginning of the year with a historical flow of 147,000 illegal immigrants detected in Mexico from January to August, triple that of 2020, and a record of 212,000 migrants detained only in July by the Customs and Border Protection Office. (CBP) from the United States.
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This Tuesday, an official source announced that the Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian Nichols, and the main adviser to President Joe Biden for Latin America, Juan González, will visit Haiti this week.
The Biden government has faced various criticisms for handling the crisis that was unleashed weeks ago by the massive arrival of thousands of immigrants, mostly Haitians, to the border between the United States and Mexico, who spent the night in a makeshift camp built underneath. of a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
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