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IOM registers 578 migrants missing or dead between Central America and the US
Mexico City. However | December 20, 2016
In commemorating the International Migrants Day, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) registered 578 missing or dead undocumented migrants between Central America and the United States in 2016, many of them in the Sonora desert and in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Veracruz , Chiapas, Tabasco, Puebla and Morelos.
For its part, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) called on the Mexican authorities to act in compliance with their duties and to respect the rights of such persons in Mexico.
In its 2016 report, IOM recorded most of the deaths and disappearances at the border crossings of Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Piedras Negras in Tamaulipas, as well as the border area between Sonora and Arizona.
According to the agency, 169 of the migrants died or disappeared inside the country, while another 409 suffered such fate on the border of Mexico with the United States.
At the international level, Mexico ranked as the third most dangerous place for the transit of migrants, far behind the Mediterranean Sea in which 4,899 people died this year in their attempt to reach European coasts. In North Africa, IOM reported the death or disappearance of 9999 people.
Mexico and the US border were the most dangerous to cross that Sudan, Libya or Egypt, transit countries for migrants fleeing Eritrea, Somalia or Ethiopia.
Over the past 20 years, IOM has noted that more than 60,000 migrants died or disappeared along the way, calling the phenomenon an "epidemic of crisis and abuse".
He said that the number of migrants who died and disappeared grew in all regions of the world this year, "including the Mediterranean, North and South Africa, as well as Central America and the United States-Mexico border."
In Mexico, the National Commission for Human Rights emphasized that the five countries with the largest number of migrants are India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Russia and China; The country that receives the most migrants is the United States and the main migration corridor is Mexico-United States, followed by Russia-Ukraine.
In its report, the Commission estimated that every year one million Mexicans migrate, with or without documents, to the United States, and 400,000 Mexican nationals are repatriated.
"These figures have made the border between Mexico and the United States an exceptional migratory dynamic," said the CNDH.
To these data are added the approximately 400,000 Mexicans repatriated annually (from 2008 to 2014) from the United States, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit (UPM). These figures have made the border between Mexico and the United States an exceptional migratory dynamic.
According to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), about 12 million people born in Mexico live in the United States today. The National Population Council (CONAPO), on the other hand, has indicated to Zacatecas like the federative entity with highest index of immigration intensity, followed of Guanajuato, Michoacán and Nayarit.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that the number of asylum seekers in Mexico this year is more than double the 3,233 applicants last year, a 65 percent increase in Compared to the 2014 figure. Applications have increased by about 9 percent each month during this year.
According to the Mexican Commission for Assistance to Refugees (COMAR), approximately 4 thousand of the 6 898 applications received until October of this year concluded the entire process, of which 2 162 162 applicants were admitted as refugees. Another 414 applicants who did not qualify as refugees received another type of government protection and were not deported.
All indications are that immigrants seek asylum more and more. There is already a precedent: In the 1980s and 1990s, Mexico received more than 40,000 Guatemalans fleeing the civil war in their country.
On December 4, 2000, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), in the face of increasing migratory flows around the world, proclaimed December 18 to commemorate International Migrants Day. Ten years ago, on the same day but in 1990, the Assembly had already adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
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