Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) announced that their investigations have implicated government authorities from the immigration agency (INM) in acting as accomplices to criminal groups involved in human trafficking and other abuses in Mexico. (Vanguardia) Bloomberg news reported on the mandate by U.S. Congress to ensure jail beds for 34,000 immigrants in detention and the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Mexican Migration Agency Posts U.S. Primer on Latin Gang Tattoos
Recently, our colleagues at Fundar discovered a truly bizarre document buried deep inside the Web site of Mexico’s National Institute for Migration (INM): an 86-page report featuring graphic photos of the body art adorning the bodies of Mexican and Central American gang members. (You can download the full report here.) In some cases, the individuals … Continue reading
Migration News – September 14-20, 2013
Members of the Casa del Migrante Saltillo – a network of human rights defenders – announced plans to propose a legal mechanism before Congress that would provide free transport for migrants in Mexico in order to avoid accidents and dangerous situations for travellers. (Vanguardia) El Siglo reported on the discussion underway regarding the passage of … Continue reading
Migration News – September 7-13, 2013
A collective of migrant rights groups called Ustedes Somos Nosotros (you are all of us) announced they have created a mobile assistance units to provide migrants in Mexico with food, clothes and medicine. (El Economista) The Mexican senate started to prepare for the inter-parliamentary meeting with the United States planned for October 2, 2013, where … Continue reading
Migration News – September 2-6, 2013
La Jornada reported that that new Wikileaks documents reveal a spying program called FinFisher that has been used by Mexico’s federal agencies to intercept private information. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights had notified IFAI weeks prior about the need to investigate the spy program. (Animal Politico y La Jornada) New criticisms surfaced … Continue reading
IFAI denies access to information on the case of the San Fernando Massacre
On Wednesday, September 4, 2013, Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information (el Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información – IFAI) confirmed that the investigation files on the massacre of 72 migrants carried out in San Fernando in 2010 will remain secret in the archives of the Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría General de la Republica – PGR). Continue reading
Migration Declassified 