MEXICO CITY (EFE).— The Mexican government has granted stay permits to just over 1.74 million migrants who decided to remain in the country during the current administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the National Migration Institute (INM) reported yesterday.
The agency of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) stated that all these people were given legal documentation that allows them to remain in the country legally.
Of this total, the INM highlighted that 513,063 people were linked to a humanitarian cause for which they were granted Cards for Humanitarian Reasons.
97,479 were granted permanent residence through recognition of refuge or complementary protection, for the various reasons why they left their places of origin.
“Likewise, 326,640 regional visitor cards were issued and 358,272 temporary and permanent residence cards were renewed,” he added.
He also said that all procedures were carried out with “full respect for the rights of nationals and foreigners and with the conviction of continuing to work for humane, orderly, safe and regular migration.”
The INM also reported that in these same six years, the government registered 185,734,558 regular arrivals of national and foreign citizens to Mexico.
Of this number, 146,024,399 were foreigners and 39,710,159 were Mexican nationals.
Of the total, according to the Mexican Migration Institute, 125,492,414 people entered the country by air; 33,853,574 by sea transport and 26,388,570 arrived by land.
Data from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) indicate that the number of requests from migrants requesting recognition of refugee status from January to April 2024 was 10,148, a drop of 32% following receiving 17,441 requests in the same period in 2023.
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2024-07-20 05:45:02
