The newspaper also warns that this critical situation will continue, according to specialists in migration policy and human rights defenders of people in irregular transit situations.

This is the number of times that migrants have entered the national territory one or more times with the purpose of crossing into the United States or requesting refuge in Mexico, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior (SG).

Part of the tragedy is that between three and four of these people die every day in this drama of mobility, said Tonatiuh Guillén, a researcher at the University Program for Development Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

“We are facing a scenario where many migrants in Mexico are living on the streets and it has provoked a xenophobic environment, where neighbors have asked for the closing of shelters because there are no guarantees for anyone, neither for the neighbors nor for the population in mobility,” he lamented.

Official data show the contrast between arrivals and returns in 2023. Only 8.6 percent of undocumented people in Mexico were returned to their countries.

They stay three to four months trying to get an asylum application appointment in the United States through the CBP One app or through alternatives in which they risk their lives to cross the border.

They are no longer just deported, they now stay in Mexico and the waiting time is very long for a procedure before the National Migration Institute (INM) or to get an appointment through CBP One.

But those who have resented it the most are the church and civil society shelters, because they are saturated, due to the policy of the United States, the president of the Citizen Council of the INM, Mauro Perez Bravo, said.

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