Refugee requests could exceed 130 thousand 2021 Segob

Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), contemplated that at the end of this year Mexico has received around 130,000 requests for refuge. In this context, he announced that, to date, the requests for humanitarian refuge in national territory are 116,500; A figure that has increased during the last few days by the members of the migrant caravan that for three weeks left the state of Chiapas for Mexico City, first, and then went to the Unidos.Al States to preside over the signing of the Specific Agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the strengthening of general coordination of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar), Encinas said that requests are being met from people with 106 different nationals, highlighting the 52,000 citizens of Haiti.Read more: UNHCR commissioner highlights Mexico’s international solidarity The official stressed that work is being done so that UNHCR’s labor integration program, which began in Saltillo, Coahuila, and has now been deployed in 11 cities, can be replicated or extended to people who are not subject to international protection.” We are fine-tuning the details so that there is a presidential agreement, there is an agreement from the cabinet of the federal government for its implementation,” the former senator reported. Alejandro Encinas expressed his confidence that the federal government will be able to strengthen programs for the safeguarding and integration of refugees in the Mexican Republic, putting ahead the “right to refuge, international protection and mobility of people in our territory.” Read more: Two arrested in Guatemala for smuggling migrants from UzbekistanIn the same vein, in his speech, UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi stressed the need to further strengthen Comar in order to face the exponential increase in refugee requests, as a result of the arrival of Haitians in the Mexican Republic. In addition, he emphasized the urgency of being able to find other options for people who do not require international protection. The mayors of Morena are being tested

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