Guatemala request information from United States i Mexico for the startling deportation of Central American migrants by a border where there are no migration or biosecurity controls due to the pandemic, the local chancellery has reported.
“The Chancellery of Guatemala has requested official information from Mexico and the United States on these irregular migratory movements” that are taking place across the border crossing El Ceibo, Petén, about 550 kilometers north of Guatemala City, according to an official statement .
For several days now, dozens of buses with migrants have arrived on this border crossing with little presence from the state. Many of them were returned by plane from United States in Mexico, And then sent to Guatemala.
Haydi Consol, a 23-year-old Guatemalan, explains that she managed to get to the United States via Texas, along with her two-year-old son. There she planned to meet her husband and brother, who had already migrated.
She remained in custody for a few days by the immigration authorities, but “it was a deception because they had given us illusions that we were going to pass and they suddenly put us on planes and deported” to Mexico, he explains to AFP.
From Mexico, they mounted them on buses and sent them to the border with Guatemala. No paperwork or paperwork. On the buses, citizens of Honduras.
the chancellery of Guatemala he explained that they were aware of the deportations of people of different nationalities, through the press.
The government recalled that the steps authorized for deportations are the Return Hall at the capital’s airport, by air, or the border of Tecún Umán, Land road, located about 300 kilometers west of the capital, where there is infrastructure to receive people.
Thousands of Central Americans have embarked on walks to get to United States irregularly, especially since 2018, when massive caravans were organized, especially made up of Hondurans and Salvadorans in search of employment.
The migration crisis has increased as a result of unemployment caused by the covid-19 pandemic, Natural disasters and the violence of organized crime.
After Donald Trump’s severe anti-immigration policies, Central Americans encrypted their hopes on Joe Biden, the government has already made it clear to irregular migrants that they “don’t come.”
“U.S. immigration policies have not changed, so those attempting this dangerous journey are exposed to immediate expulsions, risking their wealth, health, and lives because of the dangers they encounter along the way,” the Guatemalan chancellery said. .
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