Officials of the National Institute for Migration (INM) Mexico and the National Guard surprised and arrested this Saturday caravan of hundreds of undocumented immigrants who have been stuck waiting for procedures in Tapachula, Chiapas, for months after the association Pueblos Libres Sin Fronteras appealed to immigrants to leave the first caravan of the year.
A dozen vans and two buses arrived at the Miguel Hidalgo Park for a surprise operation to detain immigrants and disperse a caravan bound for the United States.
Immigration personnel and Mexican forces have randomly selected those who will check their documents to make sure they are in Mexico legally.
Armed National Guard fighters escorted INM personnel who tried to convince groups of migrants to agree to part landing. with a promise to help them get papers to stay in Chiapas.
About a hundred immigrants – mostly from Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela – with their families decided not to stay in the central square and leave in a trailer this Saturday morning.
Venezuelan migrant Eliezer Antonio de la Cruz, who chose to surrender voluntarily, said authorities told them they had been given a piece of paper so they could move on, not to be deported.
“We’ve been through a lot, we don’t have money or food anymore, everything was stolen from us, we tried to make this trip to help our families, we trust the words of the immigration office, they told us no, they are going to deport us,” he pointed out to EFE.
Her compatriot Frances Mendez, who is traveling with her two girls and her husband, has decided to give up because she wants to do everything right and legal. She even commented that they have a Mexican Commission for Refugee (Comar) process that allows them to get a visa for humanitarian reasons.
“They told us they were going to help us because I gave up again today so they could do the upgrade and they told us we can’t do that anymore and now they’re saying yes,” Mendez said.
The migrants who remained in the park explained that what the Migration was doing was useless because they were taking them to the immigration station and giving them permission to just be in the city or drive across the southern border when they wanted to continue moving. get to the USA.
According to EFE
– CBP reported that more than 250,000 immigrants were detained at the border in December.
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to review a law that penalizes encouraging undocumented immigrants to immigrate.
– Backlog in immigration courts exceeded 2 million cases with waiting times of up to 4 years.
Source: La Opinion
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