AZMEX I3 26-4-19

AZMEX I3 26 APR 2019


Mexico City, April 24 .--

https://www.jornada.com.mx/sin-fronteras/2019/04/24/en-tres-meses-han-pasado-por-mexico-unas-300-mil-personas-sg-686.html

Mexico faces an unprecedented behavior of migratory flows with the presence of citizens from
Central America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa
that generates complex scenarios in the southern and northern borders of Mexico,
according to the Secretariats of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Ministry of the Interior. (SG),
as well as the National Institute of Migration (INM).

In joint conference of those dependencies, the head of the SG, Olga Sanchez Cordero, indicated:
It is estimated that during the first three months of the year nearly 300,000 migrants have traveled through Mexico
to enter the United States irregularly.

According to information provided by Christopher Gascon -representative in Mexico of the International Organization for Migration,
mid-2018 in the Chamber of Deputies-, between 400 thousand and 600 thousand people cross into the United States without documents,
mainly from Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

Sánchez Cordero said that since December there has been unprecedented behavior in the Central American migratory flow,
a notable increase in the number of nationals of Cuba and People from Africa and Asia have arrived in an unusual way.

He explained that there is an unprecedented composition of women and minors in groups of migrants
that cross national territory.

The commissioner of the INM, Tonatiuh Guillén, said that Mexico is experiencing a situation with unusual flows
that have generated a special situation in the southern border region, which is being resolved.

He explained that in Chiapas there are about a thousand Cubans and more than 2,000 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.

The extra-continental flow, he added, rose dramatically; has at least three years of increasing.
and the result is that in Tapachula, Chiapas, there are approximately 1,300 people in a pop-up shelter.

Thousands of migrants who are in national territory are not in ideal conditions
we would like, said Alejandro Encinas, undersecretary of Human Rights, Migration and Population of the SG.

The main problem is presented by those who do not want to enter the shelters, explained Encinas.
Minimum standards are being met to guarantee all health, epidemiology, food, water and sanitation issues, he added.

The SG affirmed that the federal government is doing everything in its power to assist migrants
and provide them with humanitarian assistance, but "we ask that they contribute with two basic behaviors:
first, respect our laws and our authorities,
and second, accept its registration as a precondition for deciding its migratory status.

Regrettable operative

The operation carried out on Monday in Pijijiapan, Chiapas, in which 367 migrants were arrested,
It was regrettable because of the events that took place, said Tonatiuh Guillén.

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