The Government of Mexico prepares a decree to offer "immigration alternatives" Haitian migrants, with the aim that they do not "collapse" the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) and do not have to deport them.
"Haitians do not come to the country for reasons of persecution or generalized violence, but for economic reasons, which leaves them outside the definition of refuge, however, they go to Comar because they see no other option", explained this Tuesday the head of the organization, Andrés Ramírez.
However, given the condition Haiti is in, it would be "most inhumane to return them", although, without refugee status, they cannot remain in Mexico. "You have to look for alternatives", has added in the framework of a visit by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, to Tijuana.
For this reason, Mexico prepares a decree in which "these migratory alternatives are established and clearly defined so that not all Haitians think that they necessarily have to come to Comar, in which they are placing us in a situation of collapse", has continued.
Remembering that in 2016 thousands of Haitians migrated to the United States and Mexico, where they remained "with a humanitarian visitor card", which allowed them access to employment and public services, has specified that the decree will describe this possibility.
"That is, it is not said that they must be deported, it is not said that they do not have access to employment, no, all these possibilities exist but without the collapse of the Comar"Ramírez has influenced, according to the Mexican newspaper ‘La Jornada’.
Migrations from Haiti have increased in the context of the crisis in the country, accentuated after the assassination of Prime Minister Jovenel Moise. The crisis reached its peak in late September, with thousands of Haitian migrants in Mexico and the United States ultimately being deported.
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