Do you wonder what’s going on in Mexico in 2025 now that the US has changed its asylum practices?At minute mark 37 of this podcast, you can hear Gretchen Kuhner (ED of the NGO El Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migracion) talk about current conditions in MEX regarding enforcement, detention, sylum, etc. She mentions this:
1. MX has a detention center in Villahermosa, Tabasco to hold people from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador before deportation. It also holds some nationals from other countries who are eventually let out on the street.
2. 3-4% of MX GDP is remittances – MX’s first priority is protecting the Mexicans in the US
3. Mexico has liberal asylum “coverage” (including gender-based violence) but you must apply w/i 30 days, remain in the state where you first applied. And the Biden administration 2023 requested that MX stop giving work permits to asylum seekers.
4. National Immigration Institute (unarmed) aided by the National Guard (armed) stop buses, move people to southern MX.
Please share with others who might be wondering what’s happening in Mexico.
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