03:31A shelter in Chiapas was seen filled with migrants on Wednesday after Mexico has introduced a new asylum registration system where migrants can request asylum in the south before traveling to the US border.
"They told us that in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, they are helping the migrants, that's why I came here to avoid a kidnapping because they have already presented themselves a lot with migrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, of all them. When they go with their families or on their own they grab them on the road and are taking five thousand and even 10 thousand dollars," a migrant claimed.
"Now I am waiting for my appointment to travel more safely from here at the border of Tapachula. I think it's excellent and I'm really happy," another migrant said.
Migrants pushing north to file an asylum request experience a range of difficulties including reported assaults and kidnappings by criminal gangs according to media reports. Within the new strategy to curb irregular migration and create safe routes for those traveling north, migrants can now register for a CBP One application in southern Mexico including in Chiapas and Tabasco. Mexico said last month it will offer escorted bus rides from the south to the US border to those migrants who already have a US asylum appointment. This came one week after the US has expanded the area in Mexico where migrants can file an application for an appointment via a mobile application.
"I left Honduras in December (2023). I registered the application on January 6th and had not updated it, but I updated it on Thursday 12th and on Friday 13th they approved my appointment," one migrant explained.
As a result of the situation in Chiapas, activists and migrants claimed that violence unleashed by organised crime has worsened accusing the government of President Andrds Manuel Lopez Obrador of ignoring the problem.
Mexico has seen an increase in migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and other countries hoping to enter the United States.
Although irregular migration through Mexico to the US has decreased by 66 percent, 712,000 have arrived in Mexico in the first half of the year.
'I came to avoid getting kidnapped!' - Chiapas migrant shelter reaches capacity as new asylum registration plan promises safe routes to US border
A shelter in Chiapas was seen filled with migrants on Wednesday after Mexico has introduced a new asylum registration system where migrants can request asylum in the south before traveling to the US border.
"They told us that in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, they are helping the migrants, that's why I came here to avoid a kidnapping because they have already presented themselves a lot with migrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, of all them. When they go with their families or on their own they grab them on the road and are taking five thousand and even 10 thousand dollars," a migrant claimed.
"Now I am waiting for my appointment to travel more safely from here at the border of Tapachula. I think it's excellent and I'm really happy," another migrant said.
Migrants pushing north to file an asylum request experience a range of difficulties including reported assaults and kidnappings by criminal gangs according to media reports. Within the new strategy to curb irregular migration and create safe routes for those traveling north, migrants can now register for a CBP One application in southern Mexico including in Chiapas and Tabasco. Mexico said last month it will offer escorted bus rides from the south to the US border to those migrants who already have a US asylum appointment. This came one week after the US has expanded the area in Mexico where migrants can file an application for an appointment via a mobile application.
"I left Honduras in December (2023). I registered the application on January 6th and had not updated it, but I updated it on Thursday 12th and on Friday 13th they approved my appointment," one migrant explained.
As a result of the situation in Chiapas, activists and migrants claimed that violence unleashed by organised crime has worsened accusing the government of President Andrds Manuel Lopez Obrador of ignoring the problem.
Mexico has seen an increase in migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and other countries hoping to enter the United States.
Although irregular migration through Mexico to the US has decreased by 66 percent, 712,000 have arrived in Mexico in the first half of the year.
A shelter in Chiapas was seen filled with migrants on Wednesday after Mexico has introduced a new asylum registration system where migrants can request asylum in the south before traveling to the US border.
"They told us that in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, they are helping the migrants, that's why I came here to avoid a kidnapping because they have already presented themselves a lot with migrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, of all them. When they go with their families or on their own they grab them on the road and are taking five thousand and even 10 thousand dollars," a migrant claimed.
"Now I am waiting for my appointment to travel more safely from here at the border of Tapachula. I think it's excellent and I'm really happy," another migrant said.
Migrants pushing north to file an asylum request experience a range of difficulties including reported assaults and kidnappings by criminal gangs according to media reports. Within the new strategy to curb irregular migration and create safe routes for those traveling north, migrants can now register for a CBP One application in southern Mexico including in Chiapas and Tabasco. Mexico said last month it will offer escorted bus rides from the south to the US border to those migrants who already have a US asylum appointment. This came one week after the US has expanded the area in Mexico where migrants can file an application for an appointment via a mobile application.
"I left Honduras in December (2023). I registered the application on January 6th and had not updated it, but I updated it on Thursday 12th and on Friday 13th they approved my appointment," one migrant explained.
As a result of the situation in Chiapas, activists and migrants claimed that violence unleashed by organised crime has worsened accusing the government of President Andrds Manuel Lopez Obrador of ignoring the problem.
Mexico has seen an increase in migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and other countries hoping to enter the United States.
Although irregular migration through Mexico to the US has decreased by 66 percent, 712,000 have arrived in Mexico in the first half of the year.