Mexicali, June 4 – Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda emphasized that more than 2,500 unaccompanied children and adolescents repatriated by U.S. authorities have been cared for by staff assigned to the state DIF's Reception and Care Modules for Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Children and Adolescents.
The Head of the State Executive Branch in Baja California stated that the work carried out in the modules, which are located in the Garita Centro area in Mexicali and next to the Temporary Shelter in Tijuana, has managed to reintegrate 87 percent of these minors with a family member in a matter of hours, without the need to be referred to a shelter for care.
"We are working wholeheartedly to guarantee the rights of every migrant child or adolescent we serve in these important spaces, where their safety is our priority, as we understand everything they have gone through trying to cross into the neighboring country," stated the president of the state DIF.
It should be noted that during this administration, 2,596 minors have been served, of which 454 were through the Mexicali Module and 2,142 through Tijuana. They are provided with food, personal hygiene, legal and psychological assistance, social work, recreational activities, and telephone contact with their families, while ensuring their family reintegration at all times.
“Baja California is distinguished by offering kind and warm treatment to our migrant brothers and sisters. We just have to remember that we are a young, dynamic state, a product of the migration of our parents or grandparents, so we know well what it means to be a migrant. We reaffirm this quality daily by working on behalf of our migrant children and adolescents,” he stated.
