“The documents issued by this immigration agency will allow minors to follow the process of resolving their refugee application,” the National Migration Institute said in a statement.
The National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico on Thursday granted temporary visas for humanitarian reasons to the two daughters of Salvadoran Victoria Salazar, who was killed by police last weekend in the Caribbean city of Tulum, in the southwestern state of Quintana Roo.
“The documents issued by this immigration authority will enable minors to follow the process of handling their refugee application,” the National Migration Institute said in a statement.
The visas were issued hours later the mother and brother of the Salvadoran met Mexican authorities in Tulum during a telephone conversation with Mexican Interior Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero.
Victoria Esperanza, 36, a Mexican resident with a humanitarian visa since 2018, was subjected to public order disruption by four police officers last weekend, who killed her by rupturing two vertebrae.
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The murdered had two daughters, the eldest of whom, aged 16, was missing for a few hours between this Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the young daughter would be taken to a public shelter after being abused by her mother’s romantic partner, who was arrested on Tuesday.
The four police officers who allegedly murdered Victoria, three men and a woman, were videotaped during their performance and have been arrested and charged with femicide.
Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, announced on Tuesday that Quintana Roo’s prosecutor also detained Victoria’s sentimental partner, a Mexican citizen, “who sexually assaulted one of his daughters.”
According to Bukele, the mother left her youngest daughter in a shelter of the National System for the Integral Development of Families (DIF) before she died.
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has stated that the event “fills him with grief, pain and shame”.
Several UN agencies, such as IOM, UNHCR, UN-DH and UN Women, have demanded a “swift and impartial” investigation.