The IACHR warns in Mexico that US immigration policies are “very harsh and severe”

The immigration policies of USA have been “very hard” and “very severe“, so now it has to look for humanitarian responses to this crisis, said this Friday Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, commissioner and vice president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in an interview with EFE in Mexico.

“The immigration policies of USA They have been very hard, very severe and I believe that USA has to take part, as part of America, in the search for humanitarian responses that are real, possible and necessary“said the international official, who is also a rapporteur for Mexico of the IACHR.

Arosemena de Troitiño considered that the migration crisis that is currently experienced in the region responds to a long time ago, where it was talked about “American dream”, in which it was assured that USA “it was the best” and that had consequences. A crisis in the region

The Panamanian lawyer pointed out that the situation that the Panamanian is currently experiencing migration in the region has resulted in people who have to leave their countries being affected in all their human rightsespecially girls, boys and adolescents.

“It is the most vulnerable group because absolutely all of their rights are violated. It is not only the protection of their life and integrity, it is their development, their happiness, to play, they do not have anything that a child needs precisely in their development and it is not taken into account.”, he recounted.

His statements come after the International Organization of Migration (IOM) warned this week of a “unprecedented increase in migrants in Central America and Mexico”.

The commissioner of the IACHR He assured that this is a crisis that requires a regional vision, attacking the root causes, recognizing why people leave their country and addressing it.

“That’s not going to take care of it. Haiti alone, but he is not going to take care of him Mexico alone, Panama is not going to take care of it alone, that is why this vision of commitment“, said.

He expressed that just as one day it was decided to create an organization for the American States, now they must join forces to confront the migratory flow.

“(It is) a call to this political will, because it is still a political will of the States, for a new American commitment, to address the migration and that it should not be said: ‘well, in America they die like animals on their migration routes’, we should not allow that as a region, as America”, he noted.

He insisted that this is not a single nation’s problem, “It is not even the country of origin, it is not the country of transit, it is not the country of destination and it is not the country of return.”.

“But all of these countries are involved, but the others that are not part of these four also have to have this vision of humanity to address it.”, he remarked. Work together

For the rapporteur of the IACHR the main challenge in migration and human rights It is recognizing each of the crises and having an articulated and serious vision of the problems.

In addition, he said, seek international support to work together, in addition to the responsibility of civil society to work to guarantee the human rights of all people, especially in periods of government transition like the one you are about to experience Mexico.

“Civil society has an important role in working in this transition period, so that things do not come to a standstill (…) and if there is a transition or there are changes, that the things that have been evaluated as necessary to do are not interrupted, continue, adapt, but not be suspended”, he concluded.

With information from EFE.