“The documents issued by this immigration authority will allow minors to follow the process of resolving their refugee application,” the National Institute for Migration said in a statement.
The National Institute for Migration (INM) in Mexico granted temporary visas this Thursday for humanitarian reasons to the two daughters of Salvadoran Victoria Salazar, who died last weekend at the hands of police in the Caribbean city of Tulum, in the southwestern state of Quintana Roo.
“The documents issued by this immigration authority will allow minors to follow the process of resolving their refugee application,” the National Institute for Migration said in a statement.
Visa delivery took place a few hours later the Salvadoran mother and brother he met with Mexican authorities in Tulum in a conversation that included Mexican Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero on the phone.
Victoria Esperanza, 36, a resident of Mexico with a humanitarian visa since 2018, was subjected last weekend by four police officers to the alleged disturbance of public order, which killed her due to the rupture of two vertebrae.
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The murder had two daughters, the eldest of whom, aged 16, disappeared a few hours between Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the young daughter will be housed in a public shelter after being abused by her mother’s romantic partner, who was arrested on Tuesday.
The four police officers who allegedly killed Victoria, three men and a woman, were videotaped during their performance and arrested and charged with femicide.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday that the Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office also detained Victoria’s sentimental partner, a Mexican citizen, “who sexually abused one of his daughters.”
According to Bukele, the mother left her young daughter in a shelter of the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF) before she died.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the event “fills him with grief, pain and shame.”
Several UN agencies, such as IOM, UNHCR, UN-DH and UN Women, called for a “prompt and impartial” inquiry.