In the presence of three inspectors from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), at least 400 foreigners in transit who were part of migrant caravans crossing the Oaxacan territory boarded seven buses that will take them to Guerrero and Michoacán, where according to the authorities they will be able to request the regularization of their stay in Mexico.
With the visit of the CNDH staff and their offer to provide buses and the possibility of regularizing their migratory stay, the “Cristo Vive” caravan has been dismantled, which entered Oaxacan territory with 1,600 foreigners in transit; however, the arrival of some 3,000 people is expected starting next weekend.
The migrants who remain in Oaxaca are kept under a private dome, on the outskirts of the city of Tehuantepec, given that the municipal authority denied them a place to rest, the foreigners reported to the CNDH inspectors. Except in Zanatepec, the migrants complained of the refusal of other municipal authorities to provide them with humanitarian aid.
“We told them that several municipal authorities did not allow us to enter to rest, nor did they give us water or bathrooms for our needs. They see us as a plague, but they do not even send doctors to us,” they denounced.
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EL UNIVERSAL contacted the visitors, who through “Licenciado Vásquez,” said that they came from Mexico City to meet with the migrants stationed in Tehuantepec, to listen to their requests and complaints.
However, “Licenciado Vásquez” apologized to this media because he does not have the authorization to grant interviews, although he clarified that all the complaints made by the migrants will be investigated.
In this regard, the defender of the human rights of migrants, Rey Luis García Villagrán, presented on Tuesday morning a complaint received by the CNDH with the folio 2024/139879, for the alleged aggression of an immigration agent against foreigners in a caravan, in Pijijiapan, Chiapas.
García Villagrán accompanied the complaint with a video where an immigration agent, identified as “A. Pinto”, “threatens with deportation” a group of women with children and young migrants, who were resting in the community of Galeana, belonging to Pijijiapan, Chiapas.
On the other hand, migrants who agreed to be transferred on November 24 from the city of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca, to that of Acapulco, in Guerrero, shared their annoyance and disappointment, because they were only given a document with a period of 10 days to regularize their stay in the country.
“They told us, they explained, that in Guerrero or Michoacán, they would give us a humanitarian visa or facilities to make an appointment with the US immigration customs application, which we know as CBP One. None of that happened,” they denounced.
The document that the migrants received, one of whose copies they shared with EL UNIVERSAL, states that said document is only valid for 10 days from its issuance, so that those interested can manage their stay in the same entity and it is not valid for traveling outside the area.
“There we see a trap by Immigration, to wear down the migrants and so that the United States government does not see the migratory flows on its border. With these policies, the authorities leave the migrants more vulnerable to organized crime,” warned García Villagrán.
The migrant caravan that is in Pijijiapan, Chiapas, will arrive this Thursday to the municipality of Tonalá and later will arrive in Arriaga, and it is expected that over the weekend it will enter Oaxacan territory with some 3 thousand migrants, specifically to San Pedro Tapanatepec.
Source: oaxaca.eluniversal
