Luis García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignification A.C. in Chiapas (southern Mexico), has announced that the Mexican immigration authorities handed over this Monday humanitarian visas to a group of Cuban migrants so that they could reach the northern border with the United States, where they are heading to request political asylum.
The Cubans who benefited from the legal remedy were working in the city of Tapachula, waiting to regularize their immigration status to move through Mexico without the risk of being deported, according to the Daily Ultimatum.
This July 1, the Mexican National Guard took control of the Immigration Regularization offices in Tapachula to reestablish the delivery of visas and protections, after multiple allegations of corruption by Mexican officials who sold the documents between 500 and 1000 dollars.
Already in June, Cubans and other migrants protested in front of the offices of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Tapachula to demand that they be given humanitarian visas in the face of delays and corruption.
Since then, Luis García Villagrán emphasized to Mexican officials that the current immigration law in Mexico stipulates in article 52 that every refugee applicant must have access to a humanitarian visa.
Around 900 Cubans have been deported to Cuba in recent months by the Government of Mexico, which has denied them this document.
The National Migration Institute (INM) has complied with the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop the flow of migrants to the United States, after the agreement signed with Donald Trump in June. In this way, the arrests and migrant deportations on Mexican soil they continue to increase.
Despite López Obrador's migrant control policy in recent months, the INM currently receives 30 times more Cubans than in 2018.
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