Under the new rules of the United States government for the admission of Venezuelan citizens, Mexico has received 1,768 Venezuelan asylum seekers expelled by Title 42, reported Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
On October 12, it was announced that the Biden administration would only legally allow access to 24,000 migrants from Venezuela, in a system similar to the one approved for Ukraine.
Ebrard explained that in Mexico there is already a community of more than 140,000 Venezuelan migrants, 77,000 as permanent residents and a similar number who are in Mexico as refugees.
The foreign minister expressed confidence that there are fewer and fewer Venezuelans deported from the United States.
“How many people have returned to us in the last few days?” Ebrard asked. “Well, the first day there were 744, day two there were 594, day three 251 and day four 179. As you will see it is a decreasing number, this is throughout the border. Well, every day there are less, 179. Now, through the southern border (Guatemala) we do receive much more, because they are asking us for refuge and we give it to them.”
Meanwhile, groups of Venezuelan migrants have been transferred from the border with the United States to the country’s capital. The Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR) installed a temporary area in the Shelter, Training and Empowerment House for International Women and Migrant and Refugee Families (CAFEMIN), which has already exceeded its capacity.
Venezuelans seek to obtain a permit to stay in Mexico on a regular basis, and according to migrant Jonh Guerrero they have no other options
“Here we are because there is no way to move forward because they do not let us go over there, we also do not have the means to return and even if they return us we have nowhere to go, we are trying to get a permit to be able to stay here for a few days, work to support myself, while something is solved,” said Guerrero.
Some migrants point out that the current circumstances have left them stranded in Mexico.
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