A total of 7,195 Cubans They requested refuge in Mexico until the end of October 2019, as revealed by a statistical report of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR). The figure contrasts with the 218 Cuban applicants in a similar period of the previous year.
From January to October 2018, 29,631 migrants requested refuge in the Aztec country, while at the same time this year the number reaches 62,299 migrants.
Cuba occupies third position with the aforementioned 7,195 applicants, only behind Honduras (27,750) and El Salvador (8,236), and is even ahead of Venezuela, which is in fourth position (6,544).
However, the total figures on the granting of "refugee" status in Mexico are not encouraging for the citizens of the Island. Of the 8,483 Cubans who requested refuge from 2013 to 2018, 353 cases have been resolved so far, of which only 56 were granted refugee status, 8 received complementary protection and the remaining 289 were denied.
Complementary protection is that which the Ministry of the Interior grants to foreigners who have not been recognized as refugees in the terms of the Law, although they are not returned to the territory "of another country where their life would be threatened or they would be in danger of be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
After learning of the report from the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees, the Government declared that it is not in a position to serve them all, although it specified that to the extent of the "budget reallocations", the country could "replicate the program more widely to root migrants through the temporary employment pilot program.
According to local media, the program of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, consisting of settling Central American and cross-border migrants, has begun to be applied in Cancún, Quintana Roo and on the Oaxaca Coast, where Cubans and Haitians have been accepted to live together. with Afro-Mexican families.
According to the priest and activist Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, in Cancun the transfer of 30 Cubans who had requested refuge was agreed, while 19 Haitians arrived in the Coast region.
“The Federal Government will find them jobs and, once they have income, they will be able to rent a home,” he highlighted.
He indicated that it does not make sense for families to pay more money to coyotes because, in any case, the president's government Donald Trump He is going to deport them.
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