In October 2021 alone, the monthly record of 18,034 requests was broken compared to 13,065 last August, the previous highest figure.
The Mexican government received 108,195 requests from migrants seeking refuge from January to October, a record number that exceeds any similar period or full year, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar) reported on Tuesday.
The figure is more than three times that of the same period of 2020, when there were 31,995 requests at the height of the pandemic, but it is also just over 73% higher than the nearly 62,400 requests in the first 10 months of 2019.
This is the first time that Comar, which depends on the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), receives more than 100,000 asylum applications in a year, which already exceeds 70,346 requests for all of 2019 and 41,004 for all of 2020, the years with the largest amount.
In fact, only in October 2021 the monthly record of 18,034 requests was broken, compared to 13,065 last August, the previous highest figure.
Unlike previous years, applicants from Haiti are the most numerous, with 37,849 applications so far in 2021, almost 35% of the total.
In second place are those from Honduras, who represent 31% of the total, with 33,578 requests.
They are followed by Cuba (with 7,915 applications), El Salvador (5,433), Chile (5,294), Venezuela (5,113), Guatemala (3,799), Nicaragua (2,655), Brazil (2,499), Colombia (1,046) and the rest of other countries not specified.
Despite this historical number of requests, Comar only reports having resolved 31,787 cases in 2021, just under a third of those received.
The agency has received almost 280,000 applications since 2013, when the records began, but since then it has only recognized about 66,400 people as refugees.
The data is released amid a record migratory flow to the United States, whose US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has “found” more than 1.5 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the past. going from fiscal year 2021.
In addition, the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico has detected 147,000 undocumented persons detected from January to August, triple that of 2020.
A recent report from the Colegio de México (Colmex) estimated the number of migrants in Mexican territory seeking international protection at 230,000, when adding the pending cases of the Comar, the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP in English or “Remain in Mexico” ) and who are waiting to start their application in the United States. (I)
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