IF YOU WERE A VICTIM of a crime, the most important thing is to safeguard your safety and that of the people who are with you, for this it is necessary:
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- Move to a safe place for you and the people you are with.
- Ask for help from a family member or acquzaintance.
- If possible, go to any agency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office or Women’s Justice Center to file a complaint, it is important to know that they provide 24-hour service.
- In case of an emergency, call 911 or call the telephone number of the prosecutor´s officew in the state which you are.[/su_list]
We suggest you have a support and a accompainment network to report, because on many occasions the reporting process is long, so having the company of someone.
For this you can look for a civil organization or other institution that can advise you on the rights you have in case you want to denounce and can also help you to obtain documents that allow you to bein Mexico in a regular way.
THE ANSWER IS YES. In Mexico all people, Mexican and foreigners, have the right to access to justice. This obligation is enshrined in article 17 of our constitution, which states that in Mexico, everyone has the right to have justice administered.
It is common that public servants want to deny attention under the excuse that you do not have an immigration permit to stay in the country, so it is important that you remind them that your immigration status does not make you a criminal.
Having an irregular immigration status under Mexican law only has administrative consequences, not criminal ones, which means that you will never be at risk of ending up in prison for not having a permit to stay in Mexico.
Reasons why a person may be in an irregular migratory situation
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[su_dropcap style=”default” size =”2″]2[/su_dropcap] [su_tooltip style=”bootstrap” position=”north” rounded=”yes” size=”2″ content=] The migratory documentation with which they accredit their situation is expired.
The Mexican state has the obligation to protect your right to life, to reduce human rights violations of which
you may be a victim and to fight against human smuggling and human trafficking. So do not be afraid to
turn to the Mexican authorities for help, if you are a victim of a crime you have the right to report it.
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- Passport
- Permanent or Temporary Residency
- Humanitarian visitor’s card
- If you have initiated an application before the Mexican Commission of Aid to Refugees (COMAR), you can go to denounce with your Proof of Process Initiation (Constancia de Inicio de Trámite) regarding the application for recognition of refugee status.
- Proof of recognition of refugee status granted by the Mexican Commission of Aid to Refugees (COMAR).
- Resolution of the National Institute of Migration (INM) recognizing you as a stateless person
- In case you have not initiated any of these procedures, you can go with the identity card or credential of your country of origin.
- If you do not have any of these documents, but you can go to the Consulate of your country, ask for a Certificate of Nationality.
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- When it comes to non-violent theft or loss of identification documents or electronic equipment, you can file a report online. Check the requirements and how to do it here.
- If you are unable to file your report online or if this option does not exist in your state, you can go to any public prosecutor’s office.
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A crime is the behavior of a person, which puts another person in a situation that affects
him or her, or puts his or her rights and property, or those of society, at risk. When we are victims of a crime, we acquire a series of rights among which are included measures of care to ensure an effective resolution of the damage we suffer.
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Kidnapping:
The crime of kidnapping consists of depriving a person of his or her freedom, for any length of time, for the purpose of obtaining a ransom, forcing the authority or an individual to perform or refrain from performing a function or act, causing harm or damage to any person or any other benefit of any nature. Migrants in Mexico may be more likely to be victims of kidnapping. This can happen during transit to Mexico or the United States, for example when a ransom is demanded in exchange
for not killing or releasing a family member.
Extortion:
This crime consists of forcing, requesting or attempting to force a person to perform an action with the intention of obtaining an economic benefit for oneself or for another. One of the most common types of extortion is by telephone, since criminal groups usually steal cell phones and thus obtain the telephone numbers of family members and close friends. It is very common that extortions are carried out by criminal
groups, although sometimes it is the same officials who extort
relatives and friends of people detained in Migratory Stations,
Provisional Stays and airports, since they take away their cell
phones and take personal data to make the searches.
Injuries:
The crime of injury occurs when a person affects your bodily integrity and the physical or mental damage produced by this act requires treatment, healing or medical or psychological follow-up. Esto puede ocurrir cuando una persona o grupo de personas te ataca por causa de tu nacionalidad, origen étnico, idioma, color de piel, orientación sexual, etc. It is common for migrants to be victims of injuries by people who
feel aversion towards foreigners (xenophobia), as a consequence of a robbery with violence and by cruel, degrading treatment and torture at the hands of criminal groups or State agents (National Migration Institute, National Guard, Navy, Army, police, among others).
Discriminaction:
The crime of discrimination occurs through actions or omissions that tend to provoke or incite hatred or violence, deny services or benefits to which they are entitled by virtue of being public and exclude, restrict or deny labor rights based on age, sex, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnic origin, language, religion, ideology, sexual orientation, skin color, nationality, origin or social position, work or profession, economic position, physical characteristics, disability or state of health. Migrants often face discrimination on a constant basis. For example, when they are denied health and educational services because they do not have documents proving their regular stay in the country.
Enforced disappearance:
An enforced disappearance is the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty of a person, committed by an authority, of someone following the instructions of an authority or with its consent. It is also accompanied by denial of the deprivation of liberty and denial and concealment of information about the whereabouts of the person. The difference with abduction is that enforced disappearance is committed by an authority (police, migration agent, etc.) or by a
person following the instructions of the authority. Persons in mobility can be victims of enforced disappearance when they are detained by agents of the INM, as well as the
police or the Armed Forces.
Human Trafficking:
Consists of the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threats, use of force or other forms of coercion, for abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having auhority over another for the purpose of exploitation..
Migrants can be victims of this crime by being deceived with false job offers, romantic relationships, guaranteed crossing to the United States, among others. [/su_list]
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Unit for the investigation of crimes against migrant persons – UIDPM
Avenida Insurgentes, Number 20 de la Glorieta de Insurgentes, Colonia Roma Norte, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, C.P. 06700, Ciudad de México, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Delegations of the attorney general’s office of the republic of the state where you are here is a directory.
By phone (55) 53460 000 ext. 508344, 508367, 508314.
By email to unidadmigrantes@fgr.gob.mx
Specialized prosecutors for migrant care:
Only the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Coahuila, Tabasco, Campeche y Quintana Roo have them.
If you are not in one of the States, you can go to the nearest public ministry agency.
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Learn more by downloading the
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*Sin Fronteras IAP does not represent any public or government body. For more information consult the official site: https://fgr.org.mx/swb/FEMDH/UIDPM#:~:text=%C2%BFQui%C3%A9nes%20somos%3F,de%20orden%20Federal%20en%20M%C3%A9xico.