San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis., June 5.- Agents from the National Migration Institute (INM) and the National Guard are conducting operations in hotels and lodging establishments in Tapachula to detain migrants, reported Luis García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignity.
He added that by doing so, the INM and the National Guard "are not respecting the precautionary and preventive measures issued by the National Human Rights Commission" (CNDH).
He added that the operations are "the INM's response" to the decision by thousands of migrants to begin a caravan Sunday night to demand documents to cross the northern border.
The activist went to one of the hotels where several foreigners were staying during an operation and asked the migrants not to open the doors to avoid being arrested. He also warned that he would call the foreigners in Tapachula's Bicentennial Park to force the officers to leave.
Addressing an INM official, García Villagrán stated: "Ms. García, the CNDH issued precautionary measures directed at Mr. Francisco Garduño (head of that agency), and they must be respected. They are for the benefit of all these people here. This is a gross illegality. The precautionary and precautionary measures were released today, and they are not being respected by the INM and the National Guard."
He added: "We strongly urge Ms. Rosario Piedra Ibarra (president of the CNDH) to issue the corresponding recommendation against those participating here, because they have already been received by the Ministry of the Interior and the National Guard. They shouldn't carry out these operations; they should be carried out with the trailers full of migrants that leave here in Chiapas and no one sees, especially you."
He insisted that the uniformed officers' actions were "an abuse of authority; they shouldn't do this; they should go after the smugglers."
