Cuban migrants on the escape from Tapachula: "It was freedom or death"

Cuban migrants have spoken with the chain Televisa to explain how the events related to the mass flight of Cubans from the Siglo XXI Immigration Station located in Tapachula, state of Chiapas, Mexico occurred.

Mildred, one of the Cubans who escaped from the migrant detention center, says that the Cubans when fleeing did not force any doors or exits of the center, which were all unusually open. He said they had been taken out to the patio after a confrontation with some Honduran women.

“It was freedom or death, but we really didn't put pressure, we didn't put pressure to get out of that escape, really all the doors were open,” Mildred noted.

He added that the Honduran women had threatened the Cuban women with sharp objects such as toothbrushes and this caused the facility authorities to take them out to the patio.

For its part, the National Migration Institute (INM) confirmed in a statement about the event that "men of Cuban nationality violently entered the area reserved for women, where the majority were people from Honduras."

Another Cuban asked the Mexican government to welcome them into their country, to give them the possibility of legalizing their stay in Mexico because there are many hard-working and decent people among them.

He explained that there were doctors, nurses and all kinds of educated people who wanted to improve their lives.

Last Thursday they escaped from the 21st century immigration station, the largest in Mexico, 645 migrants, most of them were Cubans.

The INM reported that 35 have returned to the institution and that they continue to search for the rest of the group who are now in an irregular situation in the territory.

Mexico has deported Cuba in the last month more than 300 Cubans in agreement with the Cuban government, with which it signed a memorandum of cooperation for immigration issues.

In front of the group of Cubans who escaped from Tapachula, The institution has said that they will impose the “criminal complaints that correspond” including damage to the facilities of the Immigration Station.”