Cameroon – Asylum Seekers: Cameroonians Amongst Over Hundred Africans, Stuck in Mexico

Par Kiven B. NSODZEFE | Cameroon-Info.Net
YAOUNDE - 21-Apr-2019 - 15h43   5386                      
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Donald Trump lors d'une réunion à la Maison Blanche, à Washington, le 11 janvier 2018 AFP/SAUL LOEB
Reports say Cameroonians as well as some Africans are caught up in Mexico’s Southern border, in an attempt to cross over to the United States to seek asylum.

 Unfortunately, following a series of threats from US President Donald Trump to close the U.S border, the Mexican government was under pressure to stop migrants from passing through its territory.

The report states that most of the migrants from Cameroon, Congo, and Ethiopia are held up in Tapachula, Mexico, while others are said to have camped outside a federal immigration office, demanding transit permits.
After several weeks of waiting for the transit permits, these Africans are said to have launched a protest outside the immigration office, yelling that Mexican officials were racist.

The report on these migrants, raised by the Washington Post, has left some families in Cameroon preoccupied following the fact that their children had embarked on same journey, with the aim to enter the US, through Mexico.
One of the family members in Bamenda, said the last time they heard from their brother was early January, where he had to go through a forest for three weeks, before getting into another country. Since then the family in Cameroon, have never heard from him.

With the advent of the Anglophone crisis, many from the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, are seeking asylum across the world, with others trapped at the Mexican camp.

The U.S paper, quotes the case of 27 year old Atagwo Nesco, who came to Mexico from the city of Bamenda , where he imagined he would eventually be allowed through to seek asylum in the United States. Nesco is reportedly running from Cameroon's military, after he claims the group came for his life. He narrates how as a mechanic in Bamenda, military burnt his shop in 2017,/which pushed him to take his family, into hiding. He fled to Nigeria, Turkey, Pana, down to Ecuador and up to Columbia.

From Columbia, he carried on by bus, spending seven days without almost any food in the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. He actually took three months to reach Mexico, in late March. Just like many others, his family has no idea he is in Latin America.

Mexico’s immigration agency says it does not have statistics on the number of African migrants who have crossed the country in recent months, and such flows are not new. The country has been used by migrants as a transit zone for asylum seekers and economic migrants from across the world.

 

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