{"id":24709,"date":"2021-06-29T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24709"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:18:32","slug":"mexicos-asylum-requests-five-months-surpass-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/29\/mexicos-asylum-requests-five-months-surpass-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Asylum Requests in Five Months Surpass All of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Mexico\u2019s\nCommission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) released\ndata<\/a> on the\nnumber of asylum applications made so far in 2021. The data show that between\nJanuary and May, 41,195 applications for asylum were filed in Mexico. This\nfigure is more than the total of asylum requests made in the entirety of 2020,\nwhich concluded with 41,179. Moreover, compared to the data in 2019, which\ntotaled 70,418 petitions for asylum, 2021 has already surpassed more than half\nof the asylum requests made that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Comar\ndata also show the top ten nationalities that apply for asylum are Honduras,\nHaiti, Cuba, El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, and\nColombia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on\nthe current trajectory of asylum petitions filed in Mexico, it’s on track to\nexceed not only its 2019 figures but also those of the past eight years. In\nfact, Comar Chief Coordinator Andres\nRamirez Silva<\/a>, he\npredicts Mexico will receive more than 90,000 applications for asylum by the\nend of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Biden administration’s immigration policies have certainly attracted scores of migrants to enter the United States unlawfully. It’s also likely the administration’s actions have spurred a similar effect<\/a> in Mexico. That is why Mexico\u2019s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, referred<\/a> to President Joe Biden as the \u201cmigrant president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\u00a0Asylum Cooperative Agreements<\/a>\u00a0(ACA) with the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador required foreign nationals to apply for asylum in the first \u201csafe third country\u201d they entered. The ACA deterred migrants from “asylum shopping” their way to Mexico and eventually the United States. These agreements helped taper off asylum fraud in the U.S.<\/a> and Mexico<\/a>, as most migrants had to apply and wait in El Salvador or Honduras. Unfortunately, the Biden administration scrapped<\/a> these agreements in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n