Overview

• High Commissioner Filippo Grandi sent a formal letter to Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente praising Mexico for its leadership in durable solutions and effective protection of refugees and displaced people.
• The letter underscores Mexico’s state policy of solidarity and its active role in shared‐responsibility programs across the Americas.
• Mexico hosts more than 60,000 recognized refugees and recorded over 140,000 asylum applications in 2023 from people fleeing crises in Honduras, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and El Salvador.
• An EU-funded €1.1 million ACNUR project launched in June is bolstering humanitarian response at Mexico’s northern and southern borders and in Michoacán and Guerrero.
• Capacity bottlenecks at the Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (COMAR) and aging asylum infrastructure remain key challenges even as integration programs expand access to formal employment, education and health services.