On the southern border of the country has decreased income from the number of migrants by 60 percent, according to estimates by the Office of Migrant Care a Tapachula, Chiapas.
The agency revealed a MILLENNIUM that the monthly average they had registered was 10 thousand people, but during the months of January, February, March and, now so far in April, they have 4 thousand cases, which means that the passage of migrants in this region has decreased considerably.
However, it has already been announced the departure of a new caravan that will leave on the morning of April 15 from San Pedro Sula, Honduras to the border with Guatemala.
It is estimated that about 800 people have gathered at the bus terminal of this place in order to start the march in the first minutes of this Thursday and once again, the authorities of Honduras i Guatemala they announced that they would not allow irregular migration and would be deployed operational at their border.
In contrast, the UNHCR, the Agency for HIM-HER-IT for Refugees, supports Mexico to strengthen and expand its asylum procedures, amid a significant increase in the number of people applying for it.
The agency reported that, although the entry of migrants down the border from Chiapas with Guatemala has decreased, the number of requests for migrant asylum who for six months now live in border municipalities in the region.
He pointed out that, in the first quarter of 2021, the Mexican Refugee Aid Commission (Comar), Registered 22,606 new asylum applications, this was 31 percent more than in the first quarter of 2020 and an increase of 77 percent over the same period in 2019; while March of this year marked an all-time high for monthly asylum applications, reaching 9,776.
The agency needs this increase to reflect the pre-pandemic upward trend, which began in 2014, and continues as the country expanded its capacity to process asylum applications and integrate refugees.
He added that between 2014 and 2019, the number of asylum applications registered in Mexico increased from 2 thousand 137-70 thousand 302, representing an increase of more than 3 thousand per cent.
Most asylum applications are related to violence affecting hundreds of thousands of people in certain parts of Central America, including threats, forced recruitment, extortion, sexual violence, and murder.
Preventing the increase in the number of asylum applications, from 2018 UNHCR has helped boost the case ‘s logging and processing capabilities Comar, Even by hiring staff and support to open a new processing center in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, south of Mexico.
the UNHCR needs that with this scenario launched an innovative program that includes the relocation of refugees to places where they can take advantage of employment and educational opportunities in cities in central and northern Mexico.
“At the end of 2020, UNHCR completed the construction of a new 300-bed hostel for asylum seekers and refugees in Tapachula. In 2021, UNHCR will complete the construction of a new hostel in Monterrey, for 80 people and another for 100 in San Cristóbal de las Casas in southern Mexico, “Pierre Marc René, UNHCR’s information officer in Chiapas, told Millennium.
He added that while Mexico was once considered a transit country for many of the people fleeing Central America, the recent increase in asylum applications confirms that it has also become a place where many refugees can find protection and start their lives anew.
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