Voluntary return flight to Venezuela leaves with 140 migrants from Mexico

( Spanish) — The National Migration Institute of Mexico (INM) reported that this Saturday the first assisted voluntary return flight of some 140 Venezuelan migrants took place from the Mexico City International Airport to the Maiquetía “Simón Bolívar” International Airport. In Venezuela.

According to the INM, it is a voluntary return airlift to Venezuela as part of the binational collaboration for humanitarian assistance provided to the population of that country.

The group of migrants, who were trying to reach the US from Mexico across the border, had been stranded after Washington’s announcement in mid-October to expand a law that allows anyone who enters irregularly to be immediately deported to Mexico. To USA.

The US then also announced the launch of a new program targeting Venezuelan migrants seeking to enter the country with a similar approach to the one the administration took towards Ukrainians earlier this year and which would allow some 24,000 to enter legally. .

Of the total of 140 people embarked on the flight from Mexico to Venezuela, 125 were housed in the Oasis de Paz Shelter of the Holy Spirit Amparito, coordinated by the Diocese of Tabasco; five were in the INM Representative Office in Oaxaca, one in the state of Morelos and nine identified by the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico.