IACHR: US immigration policies are harsh and strict

The United States immigration policies were “very harsh” and “very harsh”so now he has to look for humanitarian answers to this crisis, said this Friday Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Commissioner and Vice President Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)in an interview with EFE in Mexico.

“Immigration policy NOW “They were very difficult, very serious, and I believe the United States must participate, as part of America, in the search for humanitarian responses that are real, possible and necessary,” said the international official, who is also a reporter for Mexico of the IACHR.

Arosemena de Troitiño believed that the migration crisis that is currently happening in the region is a response to the ancient past, where the “American dream” was talked about, in which it was assured that NOW “It was the best” and it had consequences.

Crisis in the region

The Panamanian lawyerHe pointed out that the current migration situation in the region has resulted in the fact that people who have to leave their countries are affected in all human rights, especially girls, boys and adolescents.

“It’s a group greater vulnerability because absolutely all their rights were violated. It’s not just protecting their life and their integrity, it’s their development, their happiness, to play, they don’t have anything that a child needs in their development, and that’s not taken into account,” he said.

His statements come after the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned this week of an “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 causes, recognizing why people are leaving their country and solving it.

“Haiti is not going to take care of it on its own, but they are not going to take care of it Mexico alone, Panama will not take care of it alone, that’s why this vision of commitment,” he 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 face migration flows.

“(It is) a call for this political will, because it is still political will statefor a new American commitment, to deal with migration, not to say: ‘well, in America They die like animals on their migration routes’, we must not allow that as a region, as America“, he noted.

He insisted that this is not a nation problem, “not even a country of origin problem, not a transit country problem, not a problem Country of destination and it is not even from the country of return.

“But all these countries in which we are involvedbut the others who are not part of this four must also have this vision of humanity to serve them,” he emphasized.

Work together

For the reporter Fr IACHR The main challenge in the field of migration and human rights is to recognize each of the crises and have an articulated and serious vision of the problem.

In addition, he said, you are looking for international support for joint work, with the responsibility of civil society to work to guarantee the human rights of all people, especially in periods of power transition like the one you are about to experience. Mexico.

“The Civil society It is important to work in that transition period so that things do not stop (…) and if there is a transition or changes, that things that are deemed necessary are not interrupted. , continue, adapt, but not that they are suspended”, he concluded.

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