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Migrants Say Mexico Is Denying Humanitarian Visas Under U.S. Pressure

HeadlineApr 05, 2019

This week, Mexico’s interior secretary said her government would not militarize its border “under any circumstances” and would provide security to Central American migrants. But hundreds of migrants hoping to cross to the U.S. say they’ve been held up in southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border. This is 30-year-old Cuban migrant Dennis Hernandez.

Dennis Hernandez: “We are waiting for our humanitarian visas, but we have not received a response of why we are not being given these papers. We are organizing a peaceful hunger strike. We have been here for seven, eight days in peace. There has been no violence over here, and we are being ignored. Just silence, which is like torture. It’s like a psychological war. I feel it’s a topic of racism with migration. I feel they are trampling over our human rights.”

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