MIGRATION CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA – Revealing data of Médecins Sans Frontières

The non-governmental organization Médecins sans Frontières has asked the US and Mexican governments to implement “immediate” legal protection measures such as asylum applications, humanitarian entry permits and protection measures for those fleeing to escape from violence

The refugees and migratory flows from the Middle East and Africa are intense in Europe. But hundreds of thousands of people try to reach North America, that is, the United States and Canada starting from Central America.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have lost their lives in the Mediterranean, much more are being killed, raped and tortured by traffickers, but also in the American continent, a humanitarian crisis is underway, particularly in Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Mexico.

According to the MSF report, “this migration is not only financially motivated, it is a wider humanitarian crisis”.

Médecins Sans Frontières states that the vast majority of immigrants live “in a state of constant violence”, which starts in their countries of origin and expands to Mexico, where they have no access to help. Two out of three (68.3%) of the surveyed migrants said they were victims of violence during their travel from Mexico to the US, with almost a third of women reporting that they were victims of sexual violence.