INM claims to have dissolved migrant caravan under the promise of regularizing their stay in the country

The federal government He asserted that after reaching an agreement with his representative, the thousands of foreigners who make up the most recent migrant caravan, located in the state of ChiapasThey agreed to dissolve the movement under the promise of regularizing their stay in the country.

The National Institute of Migration (INM) from Interior Ministry explained that members of this migrant caravan that left on November 18 from Tapachula, Chiapas, and that they were on Tuesday afternoon in the municipality of Mapstepec, they decided to suspend their march.

This was after his representative, Luis Rey García Villagrán, accepted the proposal of the immigration authority to initiate the process that would allow them to regularize their stay in the national territory.

The CEO of Coordination of Representation Offices of the INM, Héctor Martínez Castuera, announced that among the commitments that were accepted to suspend the caravan, are the transfer of migrants to entities such as Puebla, Querétaro, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Jalisco and Guanajuato, where he INM will issue them a Visiting Card for Humanitarian Reasons.

In addition, it was agreed to provide accommodation in shelters of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) or from civil society, as long as they remain in the locality.

As well as installing 10 service tables, in the dome of the football field in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of the municipality of Mapstepec, for the registration of migrants who are the reason for this agreement, in which priority is given to pregnant women and their family nucleus. ; to those who have a procedure resolved by the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) and their family nucleus, and foreigners in vulnerable situations and their family nucleus.

“The INM appreciates that finally the migrant population and its leadership made visible the risk that a walk represents for the physical and psychological integrity of people, as well as for their health, ”added the official.