by the El Reportero’s wire services
The government of Guatemala insists before the United States on the need today to prioritize the cooperation in the struggle to reverse the causes of migration and stop deportation and search of people.
According to a note from the Foreign Ministry, the authorities of this country asked the Obama administration not to perform that search and deportation of nationals and implement the plan as soon as the Alliance for Prosperity (PAP) in order to reduce migratory flows.
These claims were made in a meeting with US authorities, where these expressed concern about the number of unaccompanied migrant children continue to arrive in the southern border from the Northern Triangle of Central America, the statement says.
It reports that in the fiscal year to September – January 2015 that figure reached more than in other years but below the same period in 2014, when the arrival unaccompanied minors generated a migration crisis unprecedented in the northern country.
The Foreign Ministry recalled Guatemala’s insistence on ‘the issue of migration should be addressed by the States of comprehensive, co-responsible and humane manner.
“This ‘must include specific measures to reduce migration in countries of origin and destination through immigration reform actions, as is in the case of the United States of America.”
Rate of alarming statistics of 2014 and 2015 and believes that its reduction will only be possible when the living conditions of communities with increased migration from the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America are improved.
In this regard it highlights the early realization of the PAP-good part of whose resources will be provided by the United States that aims to create jobs and economic opportunities for the people of this region.
The results of that plan soon be seen, admits, despite which ‘Guatemala, like the other countries of the Northern Triangle, has a great commitment to the PAP and worked hard with the US government in its design, but it is urgent to start its implementation.’
However, the Foreign Ministry called the Guatemalan community to remain calm and go to the consulate of the country against any eventuality arising from the anti-immigrant raids in the United States.
Murieron en 2015 migrantes que intentaron cruzar el Río Bravo, México
Veinticuatro personas murieron ahogadas en el Río Bravo, México, de las cuales 23 intentaban cruzar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos, informó hoy el servicio de Protección Civil del norteño estado de Tamaulipas.
The victims were from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru and Guatemala. The majority they were buried in a common pit, said authorities of the frontier Mexican city of New Laredo.
In 2015 five more cases of drowning happened in the Río Bravo than in 2014, when 19 died in its waters trying to cross without documents.
The House of the Migrante Nazareth, in New Laredo, said that in 2015 it attended to 9,580 people who were trying to cross illegally the United States.
