- Title: Migrants in Mexico bearing cost of underfunding: U.N. refugee chief
- Date: 29th September 2019
- Summary: TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO (SEPTEMBER 28, 2019) (REUTERS) IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL BOARDING COACH TO CHECK FOR UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF OFFICIAL CHECKING IDENTIFICATION OFFICIALS WITH MIGRANT, MIGRANT GETTING INTO VEHICLE OFFICIAL ON DUTY WITH MEMBER OF NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER OF NATIONAL GUARD ON DUTY OFFICIAL CHECKING VAN FOR MIGRANTS
- Embargoed: 13th October 2019 17:55
- Keywords: Central America Chiapas U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi Africa United Nations refugee chief United States Mexico Tapachula President Donald Trump UNHCR
- Location: TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO
- City: TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA005AYPNP6V
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi asked on Saturday (September 28) for more resources for Mexico's asylum agency, which has been overwhelmed with applicants after many abandoned plans to migrate to the United States.
Resources at the agency, COMAR, have become more stretched since the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month decided to restore a Trump administration policy that requires most immigrants who want asylum to first seek safe haven in a third country that they traveled through on their way to the United States.
Grandi was visiting COMAR in Tapachula in the state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, where many Central American migrants cross into Mexico on their way north to the U.S. border.
The agency's head, Andres Ramirez, told Reuters earlier this month that COMAR would still fall short of funding needed. Applications are expected to hit 80,000 this year, more than double last year's.
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