Influx of Haitian and African Migrants in Mexico Now Deemed a 'Humanitarian Crisis' Alex Pfeiffer - The Daily Caller
go to original October 25, 2016

While thousands of Haitians are stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border, this Tijuana lunch spot is offering a comforting taste of home. (Fusion)

Haitian and African migrants have been flooding into Mexico at record rates, and the National Action Party (PAN) in Mexico’s Senate sent a letter to the nation’s interior minister urging him to address this “humanitarian crisis.”

Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong acknowledged this issue, calling it a “grave problem,” and will address it in a speech Tuesday in Baja California.

The Haitian and African migrants are huddled along Mexico’s northern border hoping to either receive asylum in the United States, or enter through other means. The number of border asylum claims has increased 10 fold since 2009, according to federal statistics.

In the first seven months, Mexico captured more African migrants than they had in the past four years combined. From March 2016 to October 2016, an estimated eight thousand Caribbean migrants entered Tijuana.

In the letter, PAN — one of Mexico’s largest political parties — said that 12,000 Africans and Haitians have settled in the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali. The vice-coordinator of PAN’s senate bench wrote, “What is occurring on our northern border, in these days, is a humanitarian crisis in which the federal government can’t close its eyes, or cross its arms.”

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Related: Interior Minister: Haitian Refugees in Mexico “Not a Humanitarian Crisis” (El Universal)

Related: Mexico on Alert Over Arrival of 50,000 Haitian Immigrants on Journey to U.S. (PanAm Post)

Related: International Migrant Crisis Hits a Breaking Point in Baja California (Frontera Norte Sur)

Related: U.S.-Funded Programs try to Convince Central Americans to Stay Home (The Texas Tribune)

Related: Thousands of Haitian and African Migrants Living Amid Trash in Mexico (The Daily Caller)

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