Malpractice, Discrimination and Deportations in Suspicion: Mexico’s Immigration ‘Infamous’ Quarterly

It is located several miles south of the United States and is one of the most popular places to stay in Mexico. Some tourists say that it is a field and other, like a calabash. The Mayor refers to him as he quarter. There is a retreat of the airports where the people retain their rights before being admitted or released into their country. Juan Sebastián Gómez, a 28-year-old Colombian, has prepared everything possible to avoid: ten his passport, 1,000 dollars to demonstrate solvency, financial statements, an invitation card and tickets for the regression flight. No import. Three hours of hope and when the migration filters are trying to saturate, an agent asks: “Who are the Colombians, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Venezuelans who are there? You do not have to complete the security standards to enter the country ”. Sin llamarlo por su nombre ni darle explanations, el joven bogotano fue enviado al ultimo quarter: el de las deportaciones.

“In reality, there is a large area with three small quarters in the background”, Gómez explains, “there is a salit species, a space for women and another for men”. El quarter of the detainees in Mexico City alone is obstructed and unventilated: one 20 meter square for these the same number of detainees, where the honor of the retreats is penetrating and the colchonets that the animal to sleep are the ones with the other. “Las eran aberrantes”, Gómez recalls, to whom he altarets and the habit he received on his telephone, his belt and the cordons of his zapatos. From the migration interviews, the only ones who have the right to mandate messages and make calls, the agents say, eran the estadounidenses; “Central American and South American no.” “I hicieron feel like a criminal”, afirma.

Testimonies such as the Gómez circulated in social and apartheid speeches in the media from years ago, but in the last weeks he received a new impetus from a series of positions of the Colombian authorities. The chancellor, Claudia Blum, said in a statement that “Gobierno’s preoccupation with the Colombian riots that took place in Mexico, which he recorded in the last few weeks”.

Since then, he has multiplied the denominations of citizens that affirmative action have taken place in the area of ​​migration in Mexican airports. At the point where he is motivated by a dialogue between Blum and his Mexican homologue, Marcelo Ebrard. Both cancels and agree to extend the treaty to Colombians entering Mexico and hold a seminal follow-up meeting, according to Bogotá. The recent denunciations of Colombians signal that they are being held back for long hours without their passports, without food, and that they will not be allowed to communicate with anyone at home.

A Mexican official, who wants to name it, recognizes that the country’s migration policy is a constant source of advertising from its commercial societies in the Pacific Alliance: Colombia, Chile and Peru. Economic integration includes the abolition of visas between the Member States in the finals of 2012, following the promise of free transit of persons, paradoxically, a mayor’s margin of discretion for the agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM) to decide enter the country, explain the source. “Many times, Mexico is with the United States of America that receives its migrants, while with Central American and South American countries the role is invierten”, agrega.

Apenas unos años, con el acordo de paz sellado a finale van 2016, los colombianos celebraban que ya ne se les consideraba ciudadanos sospechosos a los que les les ponían trabas. For entrees, in various lands, between them a train of European destinations, they have to demand a tourist visa. The comrades of this sail, up to 167 countries demanding visa to the Colombians, while now waiting for a centenary can enter only with his passport.

Due to the pandemic, 170,000 Colombians flew to Mexico last year. Only the 2% increase in revenues, agreed with the figures of the Government of Colombia, for this percentage has been over tens of miles of migration controls and implies hundreds of years for consular authorities. Regularly, more than a million Colombians travel to Mexico each year and miles are deported in figures that surpass in the last three years by far the most unfortunate in the United States and Spain, countries with restricted migration policies.

The President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, reconciles with his last official visit to Mexico in March of this year, on the subject of migration, as part of a discussion with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in a speech by the mayor of the exchange of information. landscaping agencies to make the transit of passengers more fluid. “It allows concentrating on those people who represent an alert and no, of course, affect the transit of other people who come with more academic or tourist interests,” said Duque. This week, López Obrador ordered his cabinet to wait for the ads.

The queens traen in the memory otros times that were created, when the Colombian passport was a burden in many airports of the world debid mainly the stigma of narcotics. A stigma shared by many Mexicans who crucified the United States. “I’m so accostumbrado and I do not care that when I travel I have to comment on the stories about Pablo Escobar, but I believe that what I did in Mexico is another level,” Gómez said.

No es solo Colombia. In February, Romania denounced “hostile activity” against dozens of citizens who were detained in Cancun while investigating a gang that operated in the Riviera Maya. A governing body admits that the tourist allowance of these countries is practically paralyzed, while advancing the fisheries. Hubo more than 200 tourists involved, only fifty ten suspicious corners.

“We are sorry that we do not have tourists’ money,” said Hermenegildo Mamani, one of 18 Peruvians who have been to China for business talks in 2018 and who have been forced to move to Mexico. El youtuber Jefferson Rescata, with 3.7 million followers on Facebook, denounced racism while being deported along with 18 other Ecuadorians in 2019. “Mexico is not just a deportation country, it is a country that is deported illegally”, Amnesty International International in 2018, which has been particularly critical of the treatment of Central American migrants, other fronts to Mexican authorities on the front.

Genesis Luigi, a 28-year-old Venezuelan, made sure he had three arbitrary detentions at Benito Juarez Airport. Various of his appearances in Mexico have occasionally resulted in the escalation of migrants’ agents and the deportation agencies in Venezuela, where salaries were paid in 2017 for studies and work and where he was not wanted. “Since Venezuelans are the only ones who come to prostitute,” he said many times, and it’s most intimidating that he’s a senior agent quarter donde estás sola ”. Luigi says that the maltrato has been mayor when he entered Mexico by the terminal at which the Latin American airlines are located.

The Venezuelan exodus has also raised tensions between the region’s fragile migration systems and treaties on refugees and asylum seekers. A Venezuelan of 29 years — who prefers to obscure his number by night — records in his step on the court that the official insisted that he should be charged with deportation “because he was found to be Venezuelan in his country.” In his case, during his deportation, two months passed at a migration station before he could initiate his treatment of humanitarian aid.

In addition to the discrimination and abuse allegations, there are cases of corruption, insured July Rodríguez, of the organization Support for Venezuelan Migrants from the City of Mexico, which has free assistance up to 50 of its citizens by day. “The common denominator is that pidan dinar para dejarlos seguir [entre 1.000 y 2.000 dólares]”, Señala. Reduced and hacked spaces also have a preoccupation with the pandemic risk to the contagious, aggregate. In a decision with geopolitical tints, Nicolás Maduro did not say anything about the denunciations in Mexico, but he has been vocally vocal about incidental incidents in Colombia, Chile and Peru, including plans to return to Venezuelans outside.

The National Institute of Migration reiterates a request for an interview with this diary, to ensure that the conditions of the migratory installations are the responsibility of the airports and the airline. The Institute is based on a communication that takes place with the Mexican cities and human rights and signals that does not have a direct register of denunciations or those of Colombian citizens because of the communication on these topics through diplomatic life.

The Mexican Chancellery convened a meeting of juveniles in charge of the embassies of South American countries, dealing with the issue of inadmissions and “practical mechanisms that must be implemented”, according to a spokesman for the Peruvian Gobierno, Jacqueline Fowks from Lima. It also holds meetings between the INM and the Colombian Embassy to verify the migration protocols of the City of Mexico and attend the riots. Although some, like Gomez, make sure that now there is no money to fly.

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