Human Rights Watch denounces Venezuelan migrants suffering from sequelae, extortions and lack of access to essential services in Mexico

La ONG human rights commission (HRW) denounces the number of asylum seekers sent to Mexico by the governor of former President Donald Trump Sufferer of violence and extortion for police, migrant agents and Mexican criminal groups. Lots of them son venezolanos that the repression of the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

It informs that from the year 2019, United States will close – and in practice – on its front on asylum seekers, a rais de lo cual muchos quedaron expuestos a abusos en México.

“El gobierno de Trump, en die marco del program ‘Quédate en México’, sent 71 miles of asylum seekers to Mexico while seeking asylum and legal proceedings in the United States. Asimismo, since March 2020, the governor of the United States has expelled more than 400 miles of migrants, many of them in Mexico, including some who seek international protection and who have no chance of seeking asylum. These last evictions are subject to imposition of additional travel restrictions to prevent the propagation of COVID-19 ″, indicates the NGO.

“Dozens of miles of migrant families, including Venezuelans who seek protection from torture, political persecution and arbitrary detentions, have been abandoned by the United States and Mexico governors in a context of extreme violence, José Miguel Vivanco, director for Human Rights Watch America.

And he added: “There are positive steps taken by President Biden to repeal some of Trump’s most abusive migratory policies, President López Obrador The most difficult thing to do is to allow other Mexican officials to act as abusers against migrants.”.

The NGO interviewed 71 Venezuelans cruising Mexico to seek asylum in United States and were sent to Mexico to hope to seek redress in the program market “Quédate in Mexico”.

“Most people travel with their couples, they have other relatives. Human Rights Watch also works with public officials, humanitarian organizations and the defense of migrants’ rights and advocates representing asylum seekers. In many cases, we consulted evidence that was consistent with the testimonies, as for example photographs, migratory documents and police information ”, declaration of the organization.

Human Rights Watch conclusion que Migrants in Mexico have been subjected to sexual, sexual harassment, extortion, aggression and psychological trauma. In addition, the 1,600 Venezuelan cases that have had active asylum cases in the ‘Quédate en México’ market represent a small proportion of the thousands of miles of migrants that were sent to Mexico by the United States in the last years, aggregate.

The NGO lied demonstrated that “all Venezuelan interviews“For information”indicaron haber skin of political persecution, torture or acoso. Sus relatos son consistentes con investigations previas of Human Rights Watch que documentaron la brutal arremetida contra opositores by the governor of Nicolás Maduro, as well as with information from the Fiscal Court of the International Criminal Court and the Independent International Mission of Determination of the High Court of Justice of Venezuela of the United Nations, both concluding information product of his investigations, which is probable that in Venezuela is hayan cometido crimes of human readiness”.

According to HRW interviewers, police, migration agents and criminal organizations targeting extortionists in Mexico. In 16 cases, asylum seekers manifest that Migration agents or Mexican police officers on the bus lanes or at the airport and arrange with the deportees if they do not pay a fee. Some claim that Mexican officials detuvieron y amenazaron con matarlos o entregarlos a los carteles si no pagan.

“In 27 cases, asylum seekers indicate that criminal groups intercepted the habían in frontier crosses, bus stations, hotels and other places in frontier cities. The criminals have secured the property or property with the property owners, and have spent hundreds of dollars in the mode of rescuing a change of protection, ”the NGO said in a statement.

It is clear that the Mayor of the victims affirms have sufrido these are abused by his condition of migrants. “Aggressors have identified identities in the victims who inspect the identity documents of migrants who have been released. In some cases, the aggressor holds his photograph or identifies it to the person in question between the multitudes. Many victims today have seen discontinued cases such as miraban or tomaban photographs before or after being offended by the offense ”, acotó.

Haciendo refers to the fact that migrants are victimized by public officials such as criminals, a man named HRW: “Do not understand who is a criminal and who is the law”.

‘My aterra salir”, Account una mujer. ‘No matter what, they are here in Venezuela”, Agregó.

Vivanco denounced that “The most difficult conditions that apply to asylum seekers in the Quédate program in Mexico are unjustifiable”. And he added: “While Biden’s governor is due to return this abusive program, the Mexican governor must ensure that asylum seekers can continue to work safely in Mexico and provide essential services.”

The reasons for abandoning Venezuela

All Venezuelan interviewed in Mexico by HWR habian huido de Political persecution, torture and hostility in the oil country.

The interviewers mentioned various motives for seeking asylum in the EU; between them, have been abused by agents of the Venezuelan Security Forces, as well as the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) in various police forces, as with the armed groups of the governing parties, known in Venezuela as “collectives”. Some have side members of opposition political parties or political activists. Only some have participated in demonstrations, in some cases in advertising essential services such as water and electricity. Otros eran public employees who have refused to participate in events in favor of the governor or that habían shared some critical image of the governor in social speeches.

Jonathan, to whom, as in the previous interviews, identify themselves with a seventeen to guarantee their security, as of April 2019 the detective who participates in a demonstration in support of leader Leopoldo López. Estuvo detenido tres días, lo golpearon ylo obligar a dormir de pie. Finally, the accusaron of delitos como terrorism, association for investigation and use of incendiary bombs.

Your family needs to sell their belongings to be able to pay $ 3,500 for what he frees. Relationships that during months, while their juices were posted one day and another, agents are present in the closets of their homes and tomaban photographs. At one point he warned that the governor would revoke his conditional liberty, by which Venezuela decided to have his wife and two children from 3 to 13 years old. In March 2020, the envoy to hope for Mexico will have applied for asylum in the EU. In the year 2021, there will be a frontier city.

Another case

Mayra, advocate for human rights and activism of an opposition party, account that in 2019 has helped organize markets to allow the government to humanitarian aid ingress A Venezuela. It is alleged that the victim was charged with felony criminal mischief for firing on a sculpture with a shotgun.

Finally, agents will break into their house, forcibly detective, sell the eggs and the detective will have a van, where the trip will take place three times mientras la golpeaban y le aplicaban descargas electricas duras seis horas.

The battlefield has a guerrilla camp near the front, donde a man amenazó con matarla si no salía del pais y dejaba de participat in political events.

Finally, regress to the city, giving it up in a GNB station. While recovering at home, a friend presented a police report. Without embarrassment, when Mayra presented herself in dependency for certification, the persons the secretary and the dijeron that the police have destroyed the denunciation. Abandon the small country before it issues an arrest warrant in return. Has been waiting for the Quédate brand in Mexico since September 2019.

Blank of sequestration and excursion in Mexico

Dieciséis persons interviewed dijeron as migration agents or Mexican police detainee detainees and sobriety exorcists, in some cases of miles of dollars. It should be noted that the officers employed by the deportees, will be able to separate or unlock cartels if they are not paid. Some say that the habit of extortion is to enter the country. Others, that the detainee detained at an airport and the migration agents took the detainee to hopes to claim a payment.

Angel and his family flew from the City of Panama to Monterrey, north of Mexico, in October 2019, as part of the trayecto to apply for asylum on the EU front. Angel reports that a Mexican migration agent has ten photos of them, presumably more than one day later in Panama’s airport, the sacks of the fila de llegada y les hizo pasar la noche en una celda. On the next day, another functionary will execute a $ 100 soborn per person and les dijo que los deportaría si no heidense.

Ángel pagó, y él y su familia continuaron en un vuelo hacia la ciudad fronteriza de Ciudad Juárez. Alli, uniformed agents of the federal police in saccharon de la fila to all Venezuelan and Cuban citizens and executors newly raised from USD 100 per person, means one of them the decision: “We know that we are intent on going to the front”. When Ángel went to pay, his agents took him to the detective next door to his family, he anchored them, took them in a van to an abandoned lane and arranged for them to pay USD 6 miles, to enter a cartel.

Angel says he has no money left over, so he golpearon a su padre, rompieron las maletas de su familia para abrirlas y desparramaron su contenido for the sole. Angel’s hermana entregó su cartera, en la que había USD 3 million, todo den dinero que tenían para el viaje. The agents flew in the van and, in the middle of the night, the family of the truck drove to the front, where the asylum process began.

Human Rights Watch asks the National Institute of Migration of Mexico to send the information to counter migration agents who are involved in migrating migrants, per have not received a reply.

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