Haiti - FLASH : Mexico offers «assisted return» to Haitians
The Government of Mexico is willing to support Haitians to return legally to the country from which they came to seek entry into the United States. This is an aid to "assisted return" by plane in Brazil, which has already been accepted by 20 of the 3,700 Haitians, who are stranded in Tijuana in Baja California with the impossibility of entering the American territory...
Rodulfo Figueroa, the Delegate of the State's National Migration Institute (MNI), said the Government of Mexico could also support on a case-by-case basis those seeking to return to Haiti next week.
The Delegate said that at the same time "some 700 Haitians have already begun the procedures to regularize their stay in Mexico and that about 150 have already completed the process and are likely to work officially."
The Mexican Government calls on Haitians not to deploy in the city without regularizing their situation. Concerning the small wooden houses that have begun to multiply in a popular district of Tijuana to shelter those who want to stay (Nuevo Haití), he indicated that it is the municipality that is responsible for issuing the permits of occupation of the soil.
