Dozens of Cuban, Venezuelan and Haitian migrants saturated the offices of the National Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) since dawn this Tuesday in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
In search of pre-registration to obtain asylum in Mexico, the majority of the migrants were complete families who arrived in that country last Friday via Guatemala,reported the local news channelImage.
Some seek to reach the US as their final destination and others stay in Mexico in search of work.
“I'm looking for freedom, some freedom, I was stuck there and I didn't have any freedom and I came to look for freedom,” said Guillermo Félix, a Cuban migrant.
“There is nothing to eat, there is no medicine, there are no doctors, all the hospitals are closed, in the pharmacies there are no pills even for a headache. “A pound of rice is worth 300 pesos,” he added about the difficult situation on the island.
Félix assures that he will stay in Mexico and has spent $1,900 so far on his migratory adventure.
In the US fiscal year 2022 - from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022 -More than 224 thousand Cubans arrived in the United States across the Mexican border, marking an unprecedented mass exodus.
Although in January of this year the changes in US immigration policy stopped the arrival of Cubans through the Central American route, many still seek to escape from Cuba through that route.
It was recently learned that immigration authoritiesThey rejected more than 3,500 Cubans at the border with Mexico since the beginning of the current fiscal year 2023.
In the last seven months, 3,522 Cubans were not admitted to the United States, according to data provided by the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP).
Since the lifting of the public health order known as Title 42 in May, the US has insisted that under Title 8, those who cross the border illegally will be subject to criminal consequences, including deportation, prosecution or a five-year ban on entering the country.
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