Updated: Mexico disperses migrants at southern border, as others arrive north
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Mexico sought to deal with an unfolding migrant crisis on Tuesday as it dispersed thousands on its southern border, even as migrants on the other side of the country defied new enforcement measures and continued to arrive at northern cities by cargo train. Large numbers of migrants have been crossing […]
Mexico’s Haitian asylum seekers lack access to basic resources, says IRC
Mexico CityReuters More than nine in 10 Haitians seeking asylum in Mexico lack the resources to cover basic necessities such as food, shelter and medical care, the International Rescue Committee aid group said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of Haitians have been displaced in recent months as heavily armed gangs have expanded their control over […]
Mexico feels the strain as Haitian migrants, caught in limbo, mark time
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Asylum claims by Haitians in Mexico are on track to hit a record above 50,000 this year, a top official said, further pressuring the country’s already strained migrant services as many begin to contemplate a future there rather than in the United States. In the year’s first three months, 13,631 applied for […]
Mexico seeks to curb ‘abuse’ of asylum system by migrants who do not plan to stay
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s overwhelmed asylum agency is strengthening efforts to weed out high numbers of applicants who “abuse” the system while passing through Mexico to reach the United States, Mexico’s top asylum official said on Monday. Mexico has the world’s third highest number of asylum applications after the United States and Germany, reflecting growing […]
Mexican authorities clear makeshift migrant camp near US border
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities on Sunday cleared a makeshift camp in the north of the country where hundreds of migrants heading towards the US border had been holding out for more than a year in what rights organisations criticised as deplorable conditions. Nearly 400 migrants have been transferred by bus to three different shelters […]
Their prospects dim, Haitian migrants strain Mexico’s asylum system
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico could see asylum applications jump 70 per cent this year compared with 2019 as requests from Haitians soar, though most of those Caribbean migrants do not meet the criteria under current rules, according to Mexico’s top asylum official. Haiti is currently the second-most common country of origin for asylum requests in […]
“We are not criminals”: migrants protest in southern Mexico
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Hundreds of migrants stuck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Wednesday protested against the country’s immigration policies that have frustrated their efforts to travel to the United States. Many of the Central and Latin American migrants, including a large Haitian contingent, have been stuck for months in the city of Tapachula […]
A BETTER LIFE?: THE HOPES AND HARDSHIPS OF MEXICO IMMIGRATION
OSCAR LOPEZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle facing refugees living in Mexico…