EFE.- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed this Sunday that your government will continue to “contain” migration, after dissolving a caravan of migrants in the south of the country, although he asked the United States for “basic solutions.”
“Yes we will continue to contain but you have to look for deep solutions, structural and also the United States has to give scholarships and has to allow temporary work visas for Central America ”, he expressed during his tour in southeastern Chiapas.
On Saturday, a caravan of about 600 Central American, Haitian and Venezuelan migrants departed from Tapachula, Chiapas, a city on the border with Guatemala, with the intention of going to the United States. but it was practically dissolved by the National Guard.
During an event in Metapa, very close to Tapachula, López Obrador said that “no one leaves his country for pleasure” and that job creation “is the best way to face the migratory phenomenon.”
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Thus, insisted that the United States give Central Americans work visas and scholarships, something that he also considered beneficial for that country “because it needs a workforce.”
He also insisted that The United States must join the development plan that Mexico wants to promote in Central America to address the causes of forced migration.
Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, concentrates more than 125,000 migrants, many of them sleeping on the streets, which for months have been denouncing the collapse of the municipality and the delay in immigration procedures.
Mexico deployed its security forces on the border with Guatemala in March to contain covid-19, but this week the Government admitted that its 14,000 elements in the region are there to “stop all migration.”
Deportations to Guatemala
Mexican authorities are deporting Central American migrants to Guatemala without complying with agreed protocols Among the states, opposition deputies and civil society leaders from the Central American country alerted this Thursday.
In a statement read at a press conference, legislators from the political group Semilla expressed their concern about the recent deportations from the US and Mexico to the El Ceibo border, in the department of Petén (north), where there is no assistance for migrants.
Members of the organization Grupo Articulador de la Sociedad Civil were joined by Semilla’s pronouncement to oppose the deportations in El Ceibo, since they pointed out that there is no capacity at that border to attend to returned migrants, among which are minors.
According to Efe and several other organizations, in El Ceibo, the migrants, mostly Guatemalans, are abandoned to their fate, without assistance, at a border point located practically in the middle of the jungle of the Petén department.
“This situation is aggravated because there is no inter-institutional coordination on the remote border of El Ceibo, Petén. The Guatemalan Migration Institute (IGM) does not have the capacity to register or assist returned migrants, ”the Semilla deputies warned.
Only so far this week were they referred to El Ceibo more than 3,500 migrants, including Hondurans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
Wait in mexico
The migratory flow increased in Mexico since October 2018, chen caravans with thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans, began to enter the country to reach the United States, so then-President Donald Trump pressured Mexico to stop them.
Migrants stranded in the border town from Tijuana are concerned about the reestablishment of the “Wait in Mexico” program by the US Supreme Court, while activists face a saturation in shelters and social spaces.
Although the issue is still being debated in court, it is already beginning to generate a tense atmosphere for those who are in Mexican territory attending to the immigration issue, since every day people who migrate arrive looking for a better chance of life.
José María Lara García, director of Juventud 2000, a shelter located in the North Zone, a zone of tolerance in Mexico’s Tijuana, commented that Reactivating the MPP program should be viewed from the conflict of attention to the migrant in Mexico.
“We see it as one more problem in our border areas, in the case of Tijuana, overcrowding will become more acute If even so, right now you can look at the different shelters in Tijuana, practically all of them are full, ”he said.
He recalled that this program was withdrawn by the current president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, but again they seek to reactivate it, which he said, it could generate a migration crisis.
When President Joe Biden arrived at the White House, he suspended the “Stay in Mexico” program. of his predecessor that forced asylum seekers to wait for their hearing from Mexican territory, thousands of whom were stranded in border camps.
With this, the migratory flow rebounded so that the United States stopped the past July at its southern border to 212,672 illegal immigrants, the highest number in 20 years.
Also, last Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court upheld a judge’s order that reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” program.
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