The National Institute of Migration (, INM) is a unit of the government of Mexico dependent on the Secretariat of the Interior that controls and supervises migration in the country.
Programs
Paisano program During the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Paisano program was created to assist Mexican nationals returning to Mexico for temporary visits.
Grupo Beta Grupos Beta (Beta Groups) is a service by the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico offering water, medical aid, and information to immigrants at risk within the Mexican borders.
OPIS Officials of Child Protection 'OFICIALES DE PROTECCIÓN A LA INFANCIA' (OPIS) are Mexican Federal Migration Agents whose main task is to ensure respect for the human rights of children and adolescent migrants, especially children unaccompanied by an adult.
2015 Temporary Migrant Regularization Program The Programa Temporal de Regularización Migratoria (PTRM) published on 12 January 2015 in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, is aimed at those foreigners who have made their permanent residence in Mexico but due to 'diverse circumstances' did not regularize their stay in the country and find themselves turning to 'third parties' to perform various procedures, including finding employment.
The program was aimed at foreign nationals who had entered Mexico before 9 November 2012. Eligible applicants could obtain temporary resident status after approval of their application by an immigration document that is valid for four years. The program ran from 13 January to 18 December 2015.
In accordance with the provisions of Articles: 1, 2, 10, 18, 77, 126 and 133 of the Ley de Migración; 1 and 143 of the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración, any foreign national wishing to regularize their immigration status within Mexican territory, under the PTRM will complete the payment of fees for the following:
In 2015, the application review fee was MXN 1,124.00 For the issuance of the certificate giving them the status of temporary stay for four years ...... MXN 7914.00
For low-income or vulnerable individuals, Article 16 of the Ley Federal de Derechos will exempt them from payment if it can be proven that the foreign national earns a wage at or below minimum wage. During the period that the PTRM is in effect, no fine will be applied (as is the practice otherwise).
Offices
Since 1999, the INM approved the increase from 16 to 32 regional offices, one for every state of Mexico and the Federal District. It also has 45 migration stations concentrated on border states (land), Mexico City (air) and the Gulf of Mexico (sea). These stations are:
State City State CityAguascalientes Aguascalientes Guerrero AcapulcoBaja California Mexicali Zihuatanejo Tijuana Michoacán MoreliaBaja California Sur Los Cabos Oaxaca La VentosaCampeche Campeche Oaxaca Ciudad del Carmen Salina Cruz Escárcega San Pedro TapanatepecChiapas Ciudad Cuauhtémoc Quintana Roo Cancún Ciudad Hidalgo Chetumal Comitán San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí Echegaray Sinaloa Mazatlán El Hueyate Sonora Agua Prieta El Manguito Tabasco La Venta Frontera Corozal Temosique Huehuetán Villahermosa Mazapa de Madero Tamaulipas Matamoros Palenque Miguel Alemán Playa de Catazaja Nuevo Laredo San Cristobal de las Casas Reynosa San Gregorio Chamic Tampico Talismán Veracruz Acayucán Tapachula El Fortín Tuxtla Gutiérrez Veracruz Chihuahua Chihuahua Yucatán MéridaDistrito Federal AICM Zacatecas Zacatecas Iztapalapa
Immigration statistics
2004 People who traveled to other countries through Mexico: 114,000 Number of undocumented immigrants: By outcome Deported out of Mexico: 211,218 Detained in Mexico: 215,695 By country of origin: Guatemala: 42.9% Honduras: 33.7% El Salvador: 17.9% Nicaragua: 1.3% Other: 4.2% Foreign visitors registered and documented: 23,048,000 Foreign people, permanently residing in Mexico, re-entering the country: 1,582 Temporary workers from Guatemala re-entering the country: 41,894 Foreign people entering the country temporarily: 19,614,710 By reason of entry Tourists: 8,770,686 Business travelers: 413,619 Other: 10,430,405 People who entered to apply for residency: 8,513 People who received Mexican citizenship: 1,582 People who regularized their immigration status: 4,373 By country: Guatemala: 1,332 Honduras: 1,046 El Salvador: 492 Colombia: 307 Nicaragua: 161 Peru: 155 Other countries: 650 By state of residence: Chiapas: 1,571 Federal District: 517 Baja California: 305 Jalisco: 266 Quintana Roo: 222 Tamaulipas: 275 Campeche: 160 Chihuahua: 119 Veracruz: 108 By gender: Women: 2,214 Men: 2,159
2017 report
A 2017 report commissioned by the Instituto Nacional de Migración argued that migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were subjected to physical, verbal and sexual abuse in its detention centers, including solitary confinement, death threats and unwanted sexual contact. The INM disputed the claims.
2023 Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire The institute was responsible for the Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire where 40 immigrants died.
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