Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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According to Mexican authorities, only those paroled on humanitarian grounds in Tapachula can apply for a flight permit to get to the southern border with the United States, after hundreds of Cuban migrants who now have to make their own transfer was refused via this route in danger. his life and movement on land.
There is currently chaos in the area after hundreds of people from the island demanded a response.
“They gave us a new instruction: from the 14th they are no longer allowed to travel. We’ll just stick with the probation program, nothing more. Only those who bought their ticket before the 14th are allowed to travel,” was the authorities’ response to these migrants.
Concerned by the announcement, many Cubans have assured that if they continued the road trip they would be risking their lives and demanding a solution.
Let’s remember that normally the travel authorization was granted, but this week these restrictions came into force, so we have to travel to Mexico City to continue immigration plans.
Journalist Mario J. Pentón contacted several migrants and collected statements like this: “We Cubans, who are here in Tapachula, ask for permission to fly and they refuse it.” It turned out that children and pregnant women were left behind in this group and are now in limbo.
Mexico is on the verge of breaking record numbers of refugee applications this year. According to Andrés Ramírez Silva, director of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR), applications could reach 150,000, which would exceed the 129,000 in 2021.