(Photo: Twitter / @INAMI_mx)
Six migrants died, including three children, and another eleven were injured. when a minibus carrying people of different nationalities overturned in the state of Puebla in central Mexico, the Red Cross reported this Saturday.
The incident happened on Friday night on a federal highway in the state where the Urvan truck was transporting migrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador, the Red Cross of the city of Tehuacán told the AP.
the migrant, six died and eleven were injured and they were taken to health centers in Puebla, the Red Cross said.
On the other hand, the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported on its Twitter account on Saturday that 688 migrants were staying in the state of Puebla, of whom 567 were found in a hotel car and 121 in a bus traveling through a local highway .
In the northern state of Coahuila, immigration officials and state police arrested 127 Nicaraguans traveling in an overcrowded truck.
(Portal/Jose Torres)
In recent months, at the behest of the United States, Mexico has stepped up measures to curb illegal migration. with an increased deployment of military and state security forces.
Humanitarian organizations have question this policy and warn that it poses a risk to many migrants who become victims of abuse, discrimination and insecurity.
National Defense Minister General Luis Cresencio Sandoval reported that from June 21 to July 21, the detention of migrants increased by 79% to a total of 36,497 people.
More specifically, the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) has ordered that the number of deaths from violence against migrants in Mexico between 2012 and 2021 must be dependent on the National Institute of Migration (INM) about that Ministry of the Interior.
determination goes Migrants from Latin American, Caribbean and African countries who have transited through Mexican territory to reach the United States or have chosen to remain and live in the country between the aforementioned years, the agency has decided.
On the Mexico-US border, the scene repeats itself day after day: migrants cross the Rio Grande from the Mexican city of Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass in Texas. A dangerous journey that thousands of migrants undertake every year in search of a better future (AFP)
In a statement released Sunday, INAI said Mexico’s migration “must specify whether the migrants were in transit or settled in a Mexican location.”
In addition to breaking down the information by nationality, gender, age and occupation; Place and circumstances of death and indicate whether investigative folders have been opened, as well as possible follow-up to next of kin and final whereabouts of victims’ bodies, among other dates.
“Unfortunately, in a country as violent as Mexico, where organized and disorganized crime acts in a disgraceful and ruthless manner, we know every day that there are fatalities in all latitudes of all states, with the exception of some states undefeated,” said INAI Commissioner Francisco Javier Acuña Llamas introducing the cause.
He added that “unfortunately, in a country like ours with these characteristics, it seems absolutely incredible, wrong that the National Institute for Migration responds that it has no information about it.”
Acuña Llamas stressed that the rule of law is broken when the right of access to information enshrined in the constitution and the law is denied; therefore, ensuring its full exercise is in the interests of the entire population.
The order comes after a person who requested the information filed a request for revision with the INAI, expressing their disagreement with the INM’s response, which declared the requested information non-existent.
Analyzing the case, Acuña Llamas warned that the obligated subject, in this case the INM, addressed the request for access to the General Directorate of Migration Regulation and Archives.
In addition to the General Directorate for Coordination of Mission Offices and the General Directorate for Migrant Protection and Liaison and the General Directorate for Immigration Control and Inspection.
These administrative units have the power to “know what is required” and said there are other administrative units in the INM that could take care of the request, such as the Office of the Legal Sub-Commissioner and the representative offices in the states of the republic.
However, the Directorate-General for Regulation and Immigration Records stated “it has no authority to hear what is required”, but the analysis shows that “it was able to hear what was requested, rendering the incompetence indicated by this administrative entity inadmissible”. .
Based on the foregoing, Acuña Llamas concluded that the procedure developed by the agency to process the application “was not valid as the search had not been exhausted in all competent units”.
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