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Mother and son at the shelter for migrant families of Embajadores de Jesús, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on April 14, 2021. Jean Gough, UNICEF Regional Director of UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean, visited the shelter during a 5-day visit to Mexico, including stops along its northern border with the United States.
“Most of the shelter facilities I visited in Mexico are already overcrowded and cannot accommodate the increasing number of children and families migrating northward. We are deeply concerned that living conditions for migrant children and mothers in Mexico could soon deteriorate further,” said Gough.
In many Mexican shelters, children represent at least 30 per cent of the migrant population. Half of them have traveled without their parents, which is one of the highest proportion ever recorded in Mexico. Mexico has become a country of origin, transit and return for these migrant children coming mostly from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.
Since the start of 2021, the number of migrant children reported in Mexico has increased sharply from 380 to nearly 3,500. An average of 275 additional migrant children find themselves in Mexico every day, after being detected by the Mexican authorities, waiting to cross into the US or being returned, according to UNICEF estimates.
Together with its partners, UNICEF has been scaling up its humanitarian response across Central America and Mexico in the past months, with increased presence at the Mexico-U.S. border. But humanitarian needs are on the rise and are expected to remain high in the coming months.

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2021

COUNTRIES:

Mexico

Unique identifier:

UN0443681

Source name:

Luis Kelly

Document Date:

April 14, 2021

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