The National Human Rights Commission requested that the necessary actions be carried out to guarantee urgent humanitarian attention, in order to safeguard the physical and emotional integrity of an estimated 4,000 people that make up a migrant caravan.
Said Commission requested the National Institute of Migration (INM), the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, the National Guard, the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (SNDIF), and the Attorney General’s Office Federal Protection of Girls, Boys and Adolescents, precautionary measures such as delivery of different supplies such as food, medical personnel, medicines, ambulances, psychological care, among others.
Because, they pointed out that among the people that make up the caravan are girls, boys, adolescents, pregnant women, the elderly, people with health problems and with disabilities, who due to their condition of vulnerability require protection during their stay. in the country.
The aforementioned caravan left yesterday, April 23, from Bicentennial Park, in Tapachula, Chiapas, possibly bound for CDMX, although migrants traveling in it have expressed that their last stop will be the United States.
incident at station
“Today we came out symbolically denouncing a State crime. We are missing 40 dead migrants who did nothing,” activist Irineo Mújica, who leads the caravan, told AFP.
According to the Mexican authorities, the fire, where the migrants died, originated when one of the people held at the Ciudad Juárez Immigration Station burned a mattress as a form of protest.
A total of 39 migrants died at the scene, most from suffocation, and one more at a hospital.
Mújica —who calls the caravan Viacrucis Migrante— also called for the disappearance of the National Migration Institute (INM) “not only in name but in a structural way to cut corruption.”
The migrants carry crosses and carry banners and long flags with written slogans in which they also demand free transit through the country from the government.
According to information from local media, this caravan that left the south of the country is the third migrant caravan so far this year.
The first caravan of 2023, leaving Tapachula, departed with close to 1,000 members, on Tuesday, February 28; the second set off a few weeks later with some 800 people.
