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Wednesday 14 december 2022

Mexico shuts down large migrant camp in the south

By MARÍA VERZA an estimated 15,000 mi-
Associated Press grants at the camp, which
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The was made up of several
Mexican government has large tents on the outskirts
dismantled a massive mi- of town. Migrants typically
grant camp in the south- spent several days there
ern state of Oaxaca where awaiting documents and
tens of thousands migrants then moved on.
have obtained temporary Most hailed from Venezu-
transit documents on their ela and Nicaragua and
way to the United States had been steered there by
border. Mexican authorities.
The move comes just days According to federal gov-
before a Dec. 21 deadline ernment data, through
set by a United States fed- early November, more
eral judge to end asylum than 135,000 migrants had
restrictions that have been passed through the camp,
used to expel asylum seek- 50,000 of them just in Oc-
ers crossing the U.S.-Mexico tober. The government has
border. not published numbers for
The National Immigration November and December,
Institute announced the but the nongovernmental
closure of the camp in the humanitarian organization
remote town of San Pedro Migrants cross the Mexico-U.S. border to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents, in Ciudad Juarez, Doctors Without Borders,
Tapanatepec in a state- Mexico, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. which has a presence in
ment Monday night with- Associated Press the town, said the govern-
out explaining its reasons. with Guatemala. Migrants in most cases just want safe had reported record num- ment had continued issu-
The agency said it would accumulating there had passage to the U.S. border, bers of migrant encounters ing documents to the end
continue supporting mi- grown increasingly frustrat- Mexico began issuing more at the border in the past and had accelerated the
grants in other installations, ed with the long wait for temporary documents that year. process in the final days.
without specifying where. documents and lack of job give migrants a matter of The migrants who were “What we saw was that
Town officials in San Pe- opportunities. days to travel within the in the San Pedro Tap- the number of immigra-
dro Tepanatepec had Under U.S. pressure to con- country. Even with such anatepec camp are ex- tion personnel increased,
requested the closure, trol the flow of migrants, documents, many migrants pected to make their way the speed of the process
which had been rumored Mexico had tried to con- have reported authorities north. It was not immedi- increased a lot and the
for weeks. The camp origi- tain them within the south- in other parts of the country ately clear if Mexican au- same day (the migrants)
nally opened in late July ernmost part of the coun- destroying their papers and thorities would revert to could go” with their docu-
as a way to relieve pres- try. But with its asylum sys- shipping them back to the trying to keep them in the ments, said Helmer Charris,
sure on the southern city of tem overwhelmed by ap- southern border. south. part of the Doctors Without
Tapachula at the border plications from people who Still, the U.S. government At its height, there were Borders team there.q

U.S., S. Korea, Japan to curb illicit N Korea cyber activities

By NINIEK KARMINI and Associated Press Senior diplomats from the North “presents one of the over its repeated nuclear
HYUNG-JIN KIM JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — United States, South Korea most serious security chal- and missile tests since 2006.
and Japan agreed Tues- lenges in the region and South Korean officials said
day to boost efforts to curb beyond.” recently that North Korea
North Korea’s illicit cyber Calling North Korean threats has been turning to cyber-
activities and other meth- “a global issue,” Sung Kim crime and covert ship-to-
ods to finance its nuclear said the challenges posed ship transfers of unauthor-
program and evade inter- by North Korea can only be ized goods as a way to vio-
national sanctions. addressed when the inter- late those U.N. sanctions.
Meeting in Indonesia’s national community stands In recent months, North
capital, the three envoys in together and speaks with Korea test-fired dozens of
charge of North Korea’s nu- one voice. missiles, including power-
clear program also agreed After the meeting, South ful ballistic weapons that
to strengthen their trilateral Korea’s Foreign Ministry flew over Japan and dem-
security cooperation in the said in a statement that onstrated a potential to
face of North Korea’s ad- the three envoys decided reach the American main-
vancing nuclear and mis- to “double down their ef- land. But the U.N. Security
sile arsenals. forts to block North Korea’s Council has failed to adopt
South Korean special representative for Korean Peninsula In his opening remarks, financing of nuclear and fresh sanctions on North
Peace and Security Affairs Kim Gunn, left, shakes hands with Sung Kim, the U.S. envoy missile programs via cyber Korea because of opposi-
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian who also serves as Wash- activities and other means tion from China and Russia,
and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Takehiro Funakoshi, right, as ington’s ambassador in and its attempt to evade two veto-wielding mem-
U.S. special representative for North Korea who is also U.S. Jakarta, said that North sanctions on the North.” bers that are locked in con-
Ambassador to Indonesia, Sung Y. Kim, center, looks on at the
star of their trilateral meeting on North Korea at the U.S. Embassy Korea’s provocative run North Korea has been un- frontations with the United
in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. of missile tests this year has der 11 rounds of United States.q
Associated Press proven yet again that the Nations sanctions imposed