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The CNDH requests protection for a new caravan of 3,700 migrants in southern Mexico

A girl plays in a migrant camp in Tamaulipas (Mexico) – XIN YUEWEI / XINHUA NEWS / CONTACTOPHOTO

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) of Mexico has requested this Monday to the federal authorities and the state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala, to guarantee urgent humanitarian attention to 3,700 migrants who could transit in a caravan to demand a response to their requests for refuge and asylum.

“The CNDH learned of the imminent organization and departure of more than three 3,700 people in the context of international mobility, among whom are children and pregnant women, who are located in the municipality of Tapachula due to the lack of attention from of authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM) and the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR)”, the organization has indicated.

Thus, the CNDH has explained that it has received “a complaint through which it was reiterated that said group of people –originally, mainly, from Venezuela, Haiti, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Asia– intend to go out in a caravan”.

The main cause of the complaint is that “the majority have waited between three and four months for the resolution of immigration procedures so that they are given certificates of application for recognition of refugee status by COMAR or, alternatively, they are issued
visas for humanitarian reasons by the IN”.

Likewise, the CNDH requests that “they be provided with water, moisturizing serum, hygienic and adequate food, attention by specialized medical personnel and first aid, medicines, personal hygiene supplies, among others, favoring those
people who are in a particularly vulnerable situation.

Source: Europa Press

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