Migration separations keep migrants stranded in southern Mexico

The family separations that the authorities have promoted migratory in the southwest of Mexico keep to migrants stranded in tapachula, Chiapas.

This situation keeps migrants looking to continue their journey towards the north of the country in uncertainty, where their hope is to cross into the USA In search of the “American dream”.

Erikson Jairo Vargas is one of hundreds of migrants from Ecuador and calls for the release of his 20-year-old son, who was detained by immigration authorities at the checkpoint in Long live Mexico.

”I cannot go forward or backward, because I cannot leave it in this country, my only request is that it be returned to me, because we are not criminals, we are merchants who seek a better quality of life, since we are persecuted in my country”vargas pointed out.

According to Vargas, his son has served more than 10 days insured at the Siglo XXI immigration station, a place that has a capacity for about 900 people.

Jairo Vargas narrated that he has been able to see his son for a period of 15 minutes in said immigration instance, while more than 72 hours have passed since the authorities have told him that he is going to leave.

He even said that he went with a lawyer to file an injunction to let him out.

Vargas is an Ecuadorian migrant, who works in commerce, is politically persecuted and told that he has been fleeing from Guayaquilwith three minors and his detained 20-year-old son.

Jorge Martinez is another migrant from Venezuelawho left his country, despite working in the Government of his country in search of better opportunities.

”In Venezuela, I worked as head of general services in a government hospital and in my spare time I carried sand because my salary was 3 dollars and I didn’t have enough.”, explained Jorge Martínez, while smoking a cigarette under the kiosk in Tapachula.

His brother, his wife, and their one-year-old daughter left to turn themselves in to immigration this day, but he considered that they would be separated, and that is his greatest fear.

However, another of the fears of this migrant is that they will be deported to Venezuela, as he recounted that his trip was too rough, since he had to leave by boat, buses, cross the jungle, see many people fall and others die with such to get to Mexico.

So now, he is desperate and afraid that his relatives with whom he is traveling will get separated and find themselves in a dilemma in which some leave first and others stay and cannot be reunited to continue their trip to the United States.