Over 900,000 migrants trying to cross the border have been expelled under COVID-related rules that went into effect in March 2020, U.S. Other residents seek asylum in the United States, many of them without success. "If they're fleeing violence and seeking safety, it's also a very stressful and undesirable situation for these individuals to be in.” "They're hoping the situation in their home communities stabilizes and the violence diminishes," said Dana Graber Ladek, chief of mission at the International Organization for Migration in Mexico. Journalists learned that some of the former inhabitants of this area and other parts of Michoacán had to flee to a neighboring Mexican state. Where do Mexican drug cartels get their guns? Often, the United States Just keep in mind that this is a war between cartels…” The man asked what they were doing there, and Blanquet told him they were pursuing a story about forced displacement due to violence. “Your group granted us permission to be here." “We're journalists,” photographer Cristopher Rogel Blanquet answered. "Who are you?" asked the tall man, who was holding a long weapon. While in El Aguaje, a tall man stepped out of a pickup truck stamped with the letters CJNG and approached the journalists. Three other men remained inside the vehicle. Sometimes, they try to entice people with displays of benevolence like handouts.īut more often, they threaten people with coercion and violence.
Strategically speaking, Ernst said, criminal groups clearly recognize how essential it is to get local civilians on their side. They're seeking to control not only the land but also populations." “Over the past two decades, the ways criminal groups exercise violence, and against whom, have changed profoundly in Mexico," said Falko Ernst, a senior security analyst for the International Crisis Group responsible for conducting research on the country’s lethal conflict. "Criminal groups have moved toward deep territorial penetration.
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center in Mexico, there were 9,700 new displacements due to conflict in 2020, bringing the total count of people displaced within Mexico to 357,000 people as of last December. About 24,000 displaced migrants, most from Michoacán, are expected to go to Tijuana to pursue asylum in the United States, according to recent coverage from the news organization Border Report.
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