- The transfer of migrants will be carried out with buses accompanied by “security institutions at the federal, state and municipal levels”
The Mexican government announced on Saturday, August 31, that it will transport migrants from its southern border with an appointment from the CBP One application, from the United States Customs and Border Protection Office, to request asylum.
The Ministry of the Interior (Segob) and the National Institute of Migration (INM) announced in a joint statement that they had launched an “emerging safe mobility corridor” to assist in the land transportation of foreigners who have an appointment with U.S. authorities.
The measure was announced a week after the CBP announced that migrants can now request an appointment to apply for asylum in Chiapas and Tabasco, states on Mexico’s southern border.
The new rule, announced about two and a half months before the presidential elections in the United States, seeks to prevent migrants from overwhelming the common border with Mexico, where the daily detention of undocumented immigrants has fallen by 77% since December, according to data from the Mexican Foreign Ministry.
The Mexican government now indicated that, since the new measure, “300 people who requested their CBP One appointment in Tabasco and Chiapas received a response to their request within a few days.”
Transfer details
Although they did not specify the final point of the journey, the Segob and the INM described that the transfer of migrants will be carried out with buses accompanied by “security institutions at the federal, state and municipal levels.”
The departure points will be the Immigration Station in Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, and the Migration Regulation office in the Southern Zone in Tapachula, Chiapas, the main border crossing between Mexico and Guatemala.
The agencies promised to provide “food during the corresponding trips.”
Mexico’s policy includes giving migrants with a CBP One appointment a Multiple Migratory Form (FMM) to have regular stay status for 20 days.
Government institutions assured that the project is a strategy to “protect the safety of foreigners who decide to travel by land to the point of entry for their appointment.”
“In order to protect family unity, immigration authorities will give priority to these groups to travel together,” they added.
Although arrests at the U.S. border have fallen, irregular migration through Mexico rose 193 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year to more than 712,000, according to the government’s Migration Policy Unit.
With information from EFE
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2024-09-01 12:47:14
