Cuban migrants lamented the lack of organization of the migration authorities in Tapachula and the lack of staff to support them.
Hundreds of migrants, including Cubans, told local newspaper Diario del Sur that there was little information from the authorities and that it was they who had to organize themselves as the offices of Mexico’s Commission for Assistance to Refugees (Comar) and Regularization Bodies from the National Migration Institute (INM) there is no information.
Cuban Enrique García, who has been staying in a makeshift camp south of this city for 20 days, told this medium that migration tells him nothing about what will happen to them and that every day they are becoming more desperate because they cannot have answer .
“I didn’t want to move out in a trailer and I’m still waiting for immigration to take care of me because my goal is to settle in Tapachula, have my papers and be able to work to help my family,” said the cuban.
García argues that the problem with government agencies in Mexico is bureaucracy, paperwork delays and the little information provided by the authorities.
This Cuban migrant says there are waiting lists from A to H and on average there are between 300 and 400 people waiting to be served by migrants, some who are in the camp and others who sleep in their rooms at night.
Enrique García believes it is urgent and necessary that the authorities organize themselves to take care of all the people who come to Tapachula every day via the southern Mexican border.
For his part, Venezuelan Oscar Alexander told Diario del Sur that he entered the city last weekend and the first thing he did was go directly to the federal offices of Comar to obtain the CURP, a population register required in Mexico for many bureaucratic procedures .
“I arrived on Saturday afternoon and since that day I have been waiting for them to visit us with my wife and son. This is where we are looking for the CURP so they don’t stop us from immigrating to this city where we are in transit,” he said.
Alexander estimates that an average of 100 people spent the weekend in front of Comar’s offices to be the first to receive and receive this document without any results.
It became known this Tuesday A total of 11,667 Cubans have applied for asylum on Mexican territory so far this year and 867 in the month of July, with Tapachula immigration authorities receiving the most requests.
Those numbers keep the island the second-largest country with the most asylum applications in that country in 2022, behind only Honduras, according to a Comar report.
The number of Cuban asylum seekers in July continues the downward trend of the last three months. In June, 1,097 Cubans had applied for asylum with that country’s immigration authorities.
So far, of all inquiries from Cubans over the years, 1,179 cases have been resolved, of which 618 received a positive response for 52 percent, the official report said.
Since late April, asylum applications in Mexico issued by Cubans had surpassed the total number of applicants for all of 2021, when 8,270 indigenous people of the island applied to the Mexican government for that condition.
The presence of Cubans in Mexico has increased since November 2021, when Nicaragua lifted visa requirements for residents of the island.
This decision has not only put pressure on Mexican authorities, but also on the border area with the United States, the final destination for most migrants entering the country.
At the end of July, Mexican immigration authorities repatriated 49 Cubans who were in an irregular situation in the Aztec state and whose aim was to reach the southern border of the United States.
This week’s group follows suit 1,459 Cubans sent back from Mexico since the beginning of this year, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) reproduced by the Cuban News Agency.