translated from Spanish: Entry of migrants implies risks of human rights violations: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that migrants are being sought to be kept in shelters in the south-southeast of the country because allowing their entry involves “many risks of human rights violations.”
After operations have been carried out against the migrant caravan in Chiapas, which have left injured and detained, the president said he will send a letter to his counterpart in the United States, Joe Biden, to insist that the social programs Sowing Life and Youth Building the Future be extended to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
“The purpose is to keep, as far as possible, migrants in the south-southeast of the country because allowing the complete introduction into the territory, which cross our country, means many risks of human rights violations, especially on the northern border, unfortunately there is that background,” he said.

López Obrador explained that with the application both programs would grant 330,000 jobs to migrants, 240,000 with Sowing Life and 90,000 with Youth Building the Future, in a first stage.
Read: INM and National Guard try to block migrants in Chiapas: how does this new caravan come about?
And that the U.S. government would have the commitment to give them temporary work visas so that they can go to work for six months and return to their activities in Central America.

“Next week at the latest I send a letter (to Biden) because we can’t just be detaining, holding, we have to address the causes. People do not leave their villages for pleasure, they do not abandon their family for pleasure, they do so out of necessity. It is not convenient to just end the migration plan at the foot of containment because it is lame, cooperation is required for development,” he said.

On the entry of migrants into the country, @lopezobrador_ says that the purpose is to keep them “as far as possible in the south-southeast of the country,” since allowing their entry involves many risks of human rights violations. pic.twitter.com/00fVrBIu1Z
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He assured that, during his visit to Chiapas, he gave instructions that human rights be respected, that he not be beaten, that he did not injure himself and “much less that he was going to attack and that the migrants lost their lives.”
President López Obrador’s statements come after several operations in conjunction with the Army and the National Guard, in which an undetermined number of migrants trying to leave the state of Chiapas were arrested and injured.
Read: Mexico will continue to ‘contain’ migrants, says AMLO; asks the US for a development plan for Central America
On Wednesday morning, around 400 elements of the National Guard and another 500 of the INM attacked migrants, journalists and activists in a new raid in Mapastepec, Chiapas.
On Tuesday, INM agents launched an operation against migrants who were in Mapastepec, and on August 28 there was also a raid on the Tapachula-Arriaga highway, where it was reported that security elements with riot gear closed the passage and encapsulated the caravan. They detained several migrants using excessive force.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) suspended two of its agents for “improper action” in the detention operation against the migrant caravan that was traveling on the Tapachula-Arriaga highway, in Chiapas on August 28.
Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), through the National Institute of Migration (INM), reported that it seeks to install a “humanitarian camp” in the state of Chiapas, to provide care to migrants of Haitian origin, “with the purpose of favoring these people a dignified life.”
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