For many of the world's refugees, Mexico is their new home. 'You arrive very beaten, and you have to learn to transform the pain,' Pérez Guerra says. 'That is why I will always be grateful to Mexico for giving me refuge.'
“You arrive very beaten, and you have to learn to transform the pain,” one Nicaraguan said. “That is why I will always be grateful to Mexico for giving me refuge.”
In recent years, Mexico has ceased to be a transitory country for people heading to the United States, increasingly becoming the final destination of an important migratory flow. Between 2014 and 2019, the number of asylum applications registered in the country increased from 2,137 to 70,418 — an, according to the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance, or COMAR.
"The country has the capacity to receive them. However, that poses a significant challenge for us because we are prepared to serve a certain number of people, and, suddenly, it rises very quickly until it becomes something emergency," said Ramírez, who worked for more than two decades at UNHCR and is an expert on migration policies in the region."That's why there's not enough in the budget or in operational capacity.
With the help of UNHCR, Katsury began her process in Mexico City but has yet to receive a response due to multiple bureaucratic delays. She is still experiencing depression, but she said she is happy to be able to work as a hairstylist, her favorite trade, and hopes to stay in the country. Based on COMAR data, experts point out that from Jan. 1, 2018, to Oct. 25, 2019, there were 90,397 applications for refugee status, and 70.6 percent were awaiting resolution. Of that figure,"6,230 people had been waiting for more than a year," the document stated.
"I am proud to be Indigenous, that is why I tattooed a jaguar that is sacred to us. But I couldn't handle the criminals who always beat me. I had no life," he said with dismay. He walked through various states to Mexico City, where he arrived with injured knees. Because he was transferred out of Veracruz where he initially filed for asylum, his application was stopped.
"Unfortunately, I lost the whole process again, and there I am fighting with my lawyer to see if we can get COMAR to answer us. If I had wanted to go, there is the wall," he said in a video call, while pointing to the U.S. border fence."But I want to be Mexican," he said firmly. "The abuses we deal with range from blunt beatings, mutilations, kidnappings, extortion, death threats, people who witness torture, forced to carry out actions against their will and many are victims of sexual abuse," said Jorge Diego López Núñez, a psychologist with the organization."It is violence characterized by cruelty, which is carried out in order to cause pain and suffering to the victim.
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