Mexico’s stretched asylum agency needs more resources: UN refugee chief 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy ReutersTAPACHULA – United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi asked on Saturday for more resources for Mexico’s asylum agency, which has been overwhelmed with applicants after many abandoned plans to migrate to the United States. “COMAR needs more resources and room to work because the challenge is increasing,” he said at a news conferences. “There has been an important increase but this does not equate with the resources that COMAR has. COMAR leans heavily on the United Nations’ refugee agency, which has provided 112 staff and helped open three new offices.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 29, 2019 01:52 UTC