President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he does not want Mexico to be a migrant camp and criticized the lack of intervention by the United Nations (UN) in the face of problems such as Haiti.
After Haitian migrant camps have been set up in Recent Days in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and others have arrived in Mexico City in search of refuge, the president said that the underlying migration problem must be addressed.
“We don’t want Mexico to be a migrant camp, we want the underlying problem to be addressed, that people are not forced to migrate. If we do not continue with the same thing, it is to retain them, put them in shelters and we do not face the underlying problem,” he said.
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In a morning press conference, President López Obrador called on the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the “misgovernment” in Haiti; said it is taking time.
He pointed out that the assassination of the Haitian president, violence and criminal gangs are what cause the population to migrate.
“Something has to be done, here the UN is taking time, it is the same, and where are the human rights organizations at the international level? Because it is not turning your back, turning the other way, you have to attend to the problems. That’s what they’re proposing,” he said.
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López Obrador reiterated his call to the United States to intervene in the poor peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Mexico City, from one day to the next, the office of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) saw its influx multiplied by six. They usually receive around 40 people of different nationalities, but this Wednesday there were 240, mostly of Haitian nationality.
Many of the migrants are seeking refuge and regulating their situation in Mexico. Most of them spent time in Tapachula, Chiapas, until in the absence of expectations they continued on their way north.
Although the first target was the United States, the terrible images of aggressions on horseback at the border and the deportations initiated by the Joe Biden administration have made them change their minds.
During his visit to the City of Acuña, Coahuila, the head of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño Yáñez, said that Mexico is not a country of open borders and that all countries, even to the sky, have immigration control.
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