2024-08-05 09:17:19
After almost half a year of talks with the EU Government, Mexico managed to make the other CBP One They traveled from the center to the south of the country.
This is what he announced Alicia Barcenahead of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) during the security meeting this Friday.
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The above, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked him to explain the panorama of irregular migration in the country, and in this regard, he said
“That is where you made the decision to have the people in charge of immigration come (…) from now on, CBP One appointments will be available in Chiapas and Tabasco.”
The federal official explained that, after the US Government decided to close 7 border crossings in mid-December 2023, due to a migration crisis that reached more than 12 thousand arrests, López Obrador decided to request that:
“The people in charge of immigration, Mayorkas (Secretary of Homeland Security), Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (Secretary of State) and Blinken (Secretary of State) came on December 27, and we agreed on a joint strategy (…) to increase CBP One appointments, and take them to the south.”
At the morning press conference on January 22, Bárcena Ibarra indicated that among a list of 10 points of negotiation with the US was “defining a parameter further south of the 19th parallel to enter the CBP One platform.”
In this regard, Bárcena Ibarra commented:
“CBP One will be defined. As you know, it is a platform where migrants register to enter the US. This platform starts at the 19th parallel, which is Mexico City, to the north. We are asking that it be moved to the south so as not to force migrants to go through the north of Mexico City to register on the platform.”
This is because the platform implemented since January 2023 by the US government to manage asylum applications by migrants requires that they be in Mexican territory in order for it to be granted, as stated in the Traveler’s User Guide, which states:
“You must be in central or northern Mexico to make an appointment.”
CBP One even requires that, after requesting an appointment, if the applicant receives an email announcing appointments, “he or she must be in central or northern Mexico to accept and schedule an appointment.”
The negotiation reported by Bárcena Ibarra takes place just over a year after the application was launched by the US Government.
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At the same time, the Mexican official indicated that on December 18 in Mexico she experienced “very strong pressure” from migration:
“On December 18, we had pressure on the border of 12,428 migrants, and we were able to reduce it to 6,751.”
The chancellor boasted that this action was recognized by the Biden administration, which also admitted that migration is not a phenomenon “exclusive to Mexico and the US because most migrants come from countries in Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America.”
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2024-08-05 09:17:19