The governments of Mexico and the United States are considering a plan to pre-screen asylum seekers on Mexican territory.
The Foreign Minister of Mexico, Alicia Barcenaannounced that the Mexican government and the Biden administration are exploring implementing a temporary program aimed at pre-selecting tens of thousands of migrants to determine their suitability to apply for asylum in the United States.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Bárcena explained that this plan would target approximately $100,000 40,000 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua, who are currently in southern Mexico in search of better opportunities and living conditions.
Mexico’s foreign minister stressed the importance of establishing “legal, orderly and safe mechanisms” for those seeking to emigrate to the United States. He assures that there is progress in the regular migration routes that have been established in the Aztec country.
Under this proposal, the United Nations migration and refugee agencies would be responsible for conducting a comprehensive review Eligibility of asylum seekersbefore U.S. officials begin working on their cases.
There is no permanent United States consular mission in the state of Chiapas, which is located in southern Mexico and borders Guatemala. Both governments assure that this joint program is crucial to ensure an orderly and safe migration of asylum seekers.
The immigration plan will include at least 15 agreements, which Telemundo reported include the possibility that border officials have authorization for them Return migrants hot who cross the border illegally.
The Mexican government, for its part, must conduct direct negotiations with the Cuban regime and the governments of Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil Carrying out returns of irregular migrants.
Last week, the Mexican government warned that it was close to setting it up Inclusion in refugee applications in 2023.
Andrés Ramírez Silva, director of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR), assured that they have exceeded the mark of 129,000 that they reached in 2021 and that the number of refugee applications this year will be around 150,000 if they continue at the current pace. Cubans are one of the largest immigrant groups.