They denounce a worrying increase in Colombians not admitted to Mexico and ill-treatment of Migration in the Aztec country

From April 1, Mexico will require Colombians who are going to travel to that country, to make a mandatory pre-registration. In this context, information was released on Thursday that denounces the increase in the inadmissibility of Colombians since the announcement.

“Every day about 85 foreigners are declared inadmissible at the Cancun International Airport, many of them of Colombian nationality,” explained the information portal Reportur, which also specified that María Fernanda Grueso, consul of Colombia in Cancun, pointed out that the situation is delicate and that the main affected are those who arrive in the Aztec country on low-cost airlines.

“We don't have a profile, since there are even cases of entire families that they don't let in. The Migration Institute has not given us the most recent figures, but we know that there is a significant increase in the number of people from Colombia who are not admitted,” the official said in the same media, and also stated that the said entity has not responded to her complaint.

Data from Reportur assure that the number of unadmitted persons has increased dramatically since 2018, when the daily number was 10, in 2021 it increased to 80 people. “In January of this year alone, the number of people unadmitted was 2,665 people, an average of 85 daily, mostly Venezuelan and Colombian nationalities,” the media explained.

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Likewise, he indicated that those who are not allowed to enter the country are forced to stay locked in a room “where often they don't even get water or food; conditions are precarious, and although they shouldn't spend more than four hours, they stay there for up to three days,” he explained.

A young man traveled to Mexico with his girlfriend, to spend a vacation, but ended up living a nightmare after being inadmitted to the Central American country, this was reported by the guy who did not want to give his original name on W Radio.

On February 26, the man embarked on a trip with his partner to Mexico City, to spend a few days of rest. When landing at the airport in the Mexican city, he made the process that is usual to enter a country as a tourist, he passed the first filter. However, he assured that an official of Migration, in a kind way, told him that because he was a Colombian man he should go through a second interview.

“I tell him that there is no problem and they pass me to a nearby room and that's how things escalate fearfully fast, it becomes very hostile, they take my cell phone, ask for my passport and make me enter a room with about 50 other people,” the young man told the station.

In the place he describes he lasted two hours and then he happens to talk to a civil servant who repeats the routine questions and without any explanation they return him to the place, where the traveler remembers that there were even children held.

After several hours, he was taken to some dungeons under “nauseating” conditions and was stripped of the remaining belongings he kept with him.

“I think there were about 30 people in a space that is not suitable for more than ten, which is alarming given the situation of covid-19. It's a disgusting environment, there are mats full of vomit, urine, they have a bathroom where smells are filtered. People lying on the floor sleeping, children crying, without ventilation, they lose track of time,” he said.

During the time that people are in that migration zone, they do not have access to food, medicine, or a phone call. The Colombian assured that this ordeal lasted about 20 hours. According to what he said, the official version was that there were irregularities in the interview process, but “when you talk under the rope with the officials, the premise is that we don't want Colombian men here, women do because they are beautiful.”

Finally, they allowed him to make a one-minute call to communicate his situation to his family. As for the Colombian Government, when they arrived in the country they told him that it was normal and that happens every day. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not speak out on the allegations of ill-treatment.

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