Migrants of Ecuadorian origin protested on Monday outside the Siglo XXI immigration station in southern Mexico, since the National Institute of Migration (INM) suspended the delivery of exit documents, which allow them to regulate their irregular situation in the country .
The migrants, who came with cardboard and accompanied by lawyers specialized in immigration matters, accuse that they have been stuck in the Mexican border state of Chiapas, unable to advance to the United States.
Irene Echiza and Walter Fabián Topanta, were detained 22 days ago by the INM and were detained, waiting for documents to be handed over to them, although neither of them was able to obtain the exit documents.
The immigration authority let Irene Echiza out on February 8; However, her husband remains detained and expressed her concern, since hers has high blood pressure and does not have her treatment.
Echiza is a multifunctional cashier by profession in Ecuador and her 40-year-old husband is a driver. The latter has been promised that he will leave.
“I am asking that they release him because it has been too many days and he is in delicate health, yesterday I was talking to him and he tells me that he is in delicate health due to the lack of his medical treatment,” he commented.
This group of people, with legal representatives, pasted the cardboard on the metal fences that serve as protection for the immigration station, in which they demanded that the Mexican government give them the exit documents. Shouting “We want exit jobs, we want exit jobs,” the migrants warned that they will continue to ask for their papers to leave this border city with Guatemala and where they have spent months stranded.
Another of the stories is that of José Dionisio Warani, one of the thousands of Ecuadorian migrants who arrived looking to cross through Mexico, but one of his sons turned himself in to immigration 11 days ago.
Meanwhile, Warani and another of his sons, seven years old, are waiting for the eldest in the Miguel Hidalgo central park, and for several days they protested on this day.
“I already have legal permission, I have gone up to Arriaga twice and they have sent me back, if they don’t want to deport us, they should let us go north and do it from there,” he said.
Waraní narrated that his compatriots, like him, left because their country is in disgrace “They killed my father for getting paid for a week’s work and my mother for a month’s work. There is a lot of crime and that does not allow us to get ahead (in Ecuador) ”, he contrasted.
The Ecuadorian migrants who have turned themselves in and left without documents, explained that they have to sign for 10 days in a row and remain in Tapachula, without the Mexican immigration authorities providing them with further information.
One more, Darwin Matamoros, has already been seized on two occasions by the immigration authorities and they have not given him exit documents, so they have not been able to go anywhere due to lack of papers.
Matamoros maintained that all the migrants roam the border city of Tapachula, in southern Mexico, because this role is of no use to them and they have to hide all the time.
The migrants remained protesting for about an hour and a part went to the offices of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) to file some 250 and put pressure on the INM, so that it can grant them their documents.
With information from EFE
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