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Mexico calls on Haitian migrants to head south – Tragic conditions in Del Rio

Mexican officials are calling on the Haitians Immigrants who have set up a makeshift camp near the city of Del Rio, Texas and wish to enter the United States to leave and return to the Mexican-Guatemalan border to apply for asylum there.

As many as 14,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, have set up makeshift camps north of the Rio Grande River under a bridge that connects Mexico with the United States, but hundreds of them headed south to Mexico after U.S. officials began deporting them. Haiti hundreds of people.

On Thursday, the US special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest of the deportation of immigrants by President Joe Biden’s government to the Caribbean country, which is facing growing insecurity due to armed gangs, suffering from natural disasters and natural disasters. the assassination of its president.

The Haitians do not want to return to Mexico

Moreover earlier in the week shocked images of equestrian U.S. border guards using what looked like whips and lasso to restrict Haitian immigrants to the southern US border.

At the same time, pressure is mounting on Democratic President Biden to step up border security, and the National Immigration Institute of Mexico (INM) has begun relocating migrants to the southern city of Tapachula to apply for asylum there.

Haitian immigrants on the Mexico-US border

“We are not expelling them from the country,” said INM chief Francisco Garduno. “We are moving them away from the borders so that there are no overcrowding and hygiene problems.”

But Haitians who made the perilous and expensive journey from Guatemala to Mexico’s Ciudad Acu .a, on the US border, are reluctant to return to a city where they have already tried unsuccessfully to apply for asylum.

The United States has repatriated nearly 2,000 migrants to Haiti from the Del Rio refugee camp on the outskirts of Ciudad Akunya and arrested nearly 4,000 others, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. About 3,000 migrants remain in the Del Rio area, the same source added.

Haitian immigrants on the Mexico-US border

Official figures from Mexico show that asylum applications made by Haitians are less likely to be accepted than those of other nationalities.

Last year, only 22% of Haitians seeking asylum in Mexico saw their application accepted, compared to 98% of Venezuelans, 8% of Hondurans, 83% of El Salvador and 44% of the Cubans. So far 33% of Haitian immigrant applications have been accepted.

Haitian immigrants on the Mexico-US border

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