After arriving in the country of citizens born in Afghanistan fleeing violence and Taliban regime in this nation, the Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Announced that the Mexican government will grant political asylum to people of Afghan nationality who so request.
At the inauguration of the National Migration Conference, Sanchez Be explained that the Afghan people goes through a complex situation in which people are being threatened and transgressed in their freedoms, in their integrity and in their dignity, over all women, who are in danger of losing the rights they have acquired in recent years.
“We do not and cannot remain unaware of this and under this premise, in accordance with the Law on Refugees Complementary Protection and Political Asylum, and in response to the request made by the Chancellery, this Secretariat of the Interior has issued a favorable opinion for political asylum to be granted to people of Afghan nationality who so require, “the official said.
The head of Segob has hoped that people of Afghan nationality who seek asylum in Mexico will find a new beginning in their lives, as human mobility is a key right and is inevitable in the world we live in.
“Responding appropriately to the flows of people is a duty of all governments in the world. This government assumes this responsibility with integrity and unity,” he stressed, noting that in the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “We firmly believe that the right to mobility guarantees other rights for human dignity, such as freedom and equality; that is why the Mexican government will always support international collaboration to ensure the protection of migrants.” .
Olga Sánchez Cordero recalled that regardless of the region of the world they come from, our country has always been characterized by being in solidarity with those who, due to political, economic, social or natural disaster circumstances, flee their places of origin , many of them very violent, and that put at risk their life or their integrity.
“The humanist tradition of asylum gives our country the opportunity to offer fraternal help in those cases where the recognition and guarantee of rights are at risk, as well as enriching and ennobling us as a nation,” he said. .
He stressed that the Mexican government is convinced that migrants are proactive agents in the economic, social and cultural development of the different regions of the country, so that the issuance of birth certificates has been launched. Unique Population Register and job offers published by the National Employment Service, which “are achievements that bring us closer and closer to the protection of the rights of migrants, which we will continue to work on and committed to.”
The Secretary of the Interior said that the protection of human rights is the guiding axis of the actions of migratory care of the government of Mexico in its four dimensions: origin, transit, destination and return, the legal framework and institutional structure arranged for these purposes are solid.
Proof of this, he said, is the creation of collegiate bodies such as the National Migration Conference, the plural conformation makes evident the coordinated efforts of the authorities of international organizations and organized civil society to protect the rights of migrants .
In this sense, Sánchez Cordero stressed that the Mexican government has assumed leadership in co-responsibility with Central American countries to establish diplomatic channels and multilateral cooperation and thus generate opportunities for joint development for the benefit of migrants.
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