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Malnutrition and disease warning for migrant children
UNICEF is warning that thousands of migrant children and adolescents in southern Mexico are at risk of malnutrition and disease
Thousands of migrants are currently living in a makeshift camps, including many who are awaiting responses to their requests for asylum.
The Deputy for UNICEF Mexico says “there are no places where they can access water, where they can wash or attend to their nutritional needs.”
Mexican authorities have been attempting to dismantle the camp near the border with Guatemala, and have started to transfer migrants to other regions.
Mexico’s Immigration Authority has not commented on the crisis.
Around 40 per cent of the refugee applicants in Mexico are minors.