NCHR emits precautionary measures to protect migrants

Demands dignified treatment from Tabasco and INM authorities.

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) requests the National Migration Institute (INM), the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (SNDIF), as well as various authorities of the State of Tabasco, to implement precautionary measures to safeguard the integrity of persons in the context of mobility -particularly children and adolescents (NNA)- who are overcrowded in passenger buses and in the Local Representation Office of that Institute in Villahermosa.

During the supervision visits carried out on February 23 and 24, personnel of this National Commission noticed the presence of 75 people in said building, among them children and adolescents with their parents and even unaccompanied minors, for which reason they asked the INM representative to channel the families and migrant children who were traveling without the care of an adult to the corresponding DIF System.

Likewise, the presence of a woman five months pregnant, eight infants and two passenger buses outside the office used by the INM to house families who, according to the migrants’ testimonies, were not provided with medical and psychological care or basic toiletries, According to the migrants’ testimonies, they were not provided with medical and psychological care, basic toiletries, mouth covers or antibacterial gel for the prevention and containment of COVID-19, in violation of the Protocol for the prevention and care of suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Migration Stations and Provisional Stays of the National Institute of Migration, in addition to lacking sufficient space to rest, wash and eat their food.

More information:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-03/COM_2021_062.pdf