KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Refugees are not illegal
– The refugee applicants CANNOT be santioned for entering our country without documentation.
As per the Law on Refugees, Complementary Protection and Political Asylum in its articles 6 and 7, no unfamiliar individual who shows up in Mexico looking for shelter or asylum can be dismissed at the lines or got back to the spot or country where their life is in harm’s way. Whether or not this individual doesn’t have migration reports to legitimately enter the country.
Moreover, it is significant that migrants who are escaping because of peril, viciousness and/or some other reason, can’t be punished for entering the country in an “sporadic” way, that is, they don’t present movement reports when entering Mexico.
This means that individuals who escape to ensure their lives are at no time unlawful, so the troublesome choice they make when leaving their places of beginning and entering our Mexican region unpredictably is absolutely legal, since it is a life or dead choice.
Understanding and explaining this information to others are actions that contribute to a well informed border community about the applicably law to migrants.
Full articles:
Article 6. No applicant or refugee may in any capacity be dismissed at the boundary or returned in any capacity to the region of another country where his life is in peril for the reasons demonstrated in article 13 of this Law, or where there are very much established motivations to consider that You would be at risk for being exposed to torment or other merciless, barbaric or debasing treatment or discipline.
The foreigner who is granted complementary protection may not be gotten back to the region of another country where his life is in harm’s way or where there are very much established motivations to consider that he would be at risk for being exposed to torment or other remorseless, brutal or debasing treatment or discipline.
Article 7. No sanction shall be imposed on the grounds of their irregular entry into the country, the refugee or the foreigner who is granted supplementary protection.
