"They're not really refugees, they don't even want to be refugees," Ramirez said in an interview on Monday. Asylum applications are now taking six to seven months, at least twice the time they should take, he said. Lasting one year and renewable, that visa is currently only available to migrants after they apply for asylum with COMAR. Mexico's National Migration Institute did not immediately respond when asked if it was considering issuing humanitarian visas to Haitian migrants. Asylum applications in Mexico from all nationalities reached 90,300 by September.
