Marisol Sering Ramirez, general manager of the DIF of Benito Juarez, in Quintana Roo, He reported that there is currently only one minor from India who is being treated in Social Assistance Center for Migrant Girls, Boys and Adolescents (CASNNAM) and that just over a year after its inauguration has served 96 cases.
“The 17-year-old girl is about to finish her immigration procedure and will return to his country. Here we care for children and adolescents, accompanied and unaccompanied,” he said.
The state official explained that for three months the flow of migrant minors has been decreasing; however, one always enters and another leaves at the end of their process and they do not remain together for long in the same place.
According to Being Ramirezin 2023 the flow was more intense as they reached the CASNNAM 12 or 13 minors at the same time, where they live together while their migration process concludes.
“In one year we have had 96 people treated, mostly women and adolescents, aged 15 to 17. Let us remember that Cancun It is a transit city for Central Americans who go to USA and many times they look for their parents or their parents wait for them there,” he said.
FREE ACCOMMODATION
The Center supports them to avoid any risk by providing them with free accommodation until Migration or the Consulate take care of them, the official explained.
“When they are teenagers and children, because we have also had six-year-old children traveling with a 14-year-old, unaccompanied, the Consul takes charge and they return to the Consulate from their country; when it is a family, it is determined whether they can be given a permit to continue their journey,” he revealed.
Since its inauguration, the CASNNAM has not recorded any cases of children or adolescents under its protection who have been victims of the crime of human trafficking.
The general director of the DIF of the municipality of Benito Juarez He announced that most of the cases handled by CASNNAM come mainly from Guatemala and El Salvadoralthough it has also received from India and Brazil.
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