CNDH requests the protection of the Migrant House “Senda de Vida”.

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) requested precautionary measures from the National Institute of Migration (INM), the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (SNDIF), the Mayor of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and the state’s System for the Integral Development of the Family, with the aim of safeguarding the integrity of approximately 600 people in the context of mobility who are housed in the Migrant’s House “Senda de Vida”.

This was done on the occasion of the warning that the authorities of the enclosure received from the Directorate of Public Works of Reynosa, in which they were informed that, at the request of the representative of the Mexican Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission between Mexico and the United States, they were granted a period of five days to vacate the shelter,  in order to demolish its facilities, because the property is located in a flood zone of the “Rio Grande” and was built without the permission of the Commission.

During a visit by CNDH staff to the shelter’s facilities on July 21, the director of “Senda de vida” said that of the 600 people housed, 250 are children and adolescents (NNA); it was also found that it houses pregnant women, people suffering from chronic-degenerative diseases, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as people with audiovisual, motor and psychosocial disabilities.