about 2,000 migrants stranded on the southern border of Mexico demanded this Monday freedom of transit in the midst of the visit of the US president, Joe Biden, in the country, where he participates in the North American Leaders Summit.
In a temporary care center in tapachulaon the border of Mexico with Guatemala, migrants of Peru, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, China, Haiti, Venezuela Y Africa They asked that their procedures be resolved to remain legally in the country and transit to the northern border.
The Venezuelan Natalia Salazar asked Biden and the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to take pity on the thousands of migrants in transit to the border.
Not being deported, we all go with faith because once you leave your house, you go with the faith of God, we are asking that they open the borders and that they qualify us ”,
Salazar told EFE.
The petition comes after the new immigration policy of the United States, which announced on Thursday that it will welcome 30,000 migrants a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua Y Venezuela, but will immediately deport Mexico to the rest that arrives through the land border.
The Venezuelan insisted on the request to be able to enter the United States through the border.
Ecuadorian Iván Zambrano, who also carries out legal procedures, remarked that governments must give way at the borders, because all the people who are here arrive making an effort.
That the authorities help us because when one arrives in that country it is to work, get ahead for the family, they are small things ”,
expressed to EFE.
This young Ecuadorian narrated that he left that country due to insecurity, crime and extortion of businesses, since many have closed their establishments and leave the country to seek life opportunities.
Some migrants from China, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador do not qualify to receive a Multiple Migratory Form (FMM) that allows them to remain legally in Chiapas.
These migrants must go to the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) to apply for your asylum request in tapachula and wait for their processing for 45 days and, depending on the resolution, they go to the National Institute of Migration (INM) to request a visa for humanitarian reasons.
Migration will be one of the main topics in the North American Leaders Summit, that this week will bring together in the Mexican capital Biden, Lopez Obrador and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow with 2.76 million migrants detained at the United States border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021.
while the eat received 118,478 petitions from migrants seeking asylum in 2022, the second highest number in history after 2021 with 131,448 cases.
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