The inhuman 'Rejection Room' for Colombians at the Mexico airport

As the days go by, the complaints of Colombians who are inadmissible in Mexico and receive ill-treatment by the immigration authorities of that country increase, regarding the constant cases, Sigue La W obtained exclusive videos of how to live the ‘Rejection Room’, the place to which they take those people who will not be allowed to enter that country.

The videos were recorded by the Colombian youtuber Pablo Rabelo, who was inadmissible and deported in Mexico, and shared his story and the audiovisual material in an interview with Sigue La W.

What is the ‘Rejection Room’?

The ‘Cuarto del Rejezo’ is a place to which Colombians and other citizens of other countries who will not be allowed to enter Mexico are transferred. there they remain without counting on a plate of food or a blanket for the nights that they leave them there. Furthermore, when they arrive in this room they are completely cut off.

It is the most feared place by all the tourists who come to Mexico, because some say that it is like a dungeon in which they have no protection from anything, they are mistreated, they are victims of discrimination and finally they are deported to their country.

In the videos known by Sigue La W, there is evidence of the mistreatment of Mexico Migration officials towards a Colombian father of a family who asks about his daughter and his wife.

Pablo Rabelo, Colombian inadmissible in Mexico, He spoke for Sigue La W and recounted the details of this feared place, assuring that it can happen to anyone, because for a variety of reasons Mexico Migration moves citizens to said room.

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Rabelo said that the reason for his trip It was a conference that I had scheduled as an international speaker and Colombian youtuber.

“I traveled from Peru and Mexican law says that everyone who arrives from Brazil or Peru has to fill out a document, which it is impossible to enter because that page does not workIn any case, I have a visa from many countries, so it is assumed that if we have a visa from the United States or Canada, we do not need this document, but it did not happen, they inadmitted me, “he said.

In the middle of the story, the youtuber said that, initially, they take him to a normal room where they are left incommunicado and without their passport, but they still do not give them information about what is happening. Later, they are taken to a room which “they ask you to take everything out of your pockets and put it in your luggage and they ask you to remove your laces (…) it is like a detention room.”

He said that it is a room that has some cabins and a bathroom for more than 30 people who can enter this room. “When they open that door for you, An armpit smell hits him and a very great heat. There was a bathroom, but there was no paper.”

And although there are people from different countries, Rabelo assured that Colombians are a great majority. “They took more or less 7 or 8 people, about 10% of the flight, but that room was full of Colombians not admitted,” said Pablo Rabelo about the flight he took.

On the other hand, he mentioned that they do not give food, the only thing you can have minimal access to is a glass of water. “I was 10 hours but there is nothing, because it is assumed that one already depends on the airlineit’s what they want and when they want, at 6 o’clock they gave me a hamburger but nothing else, you’ve gone from being a passenger to being an insert”.

Also, he stated that the exit from that room does not depend on Migration MexicoIt depends on the airline considering that you have to have a quota on a return trip.

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“There was a man who had been there for 6 days, because he traveled with Wingo and they only have flights every other day, but on that third day, the flight was cancelled, so he had to wait.”

The youtuber stressed that they are completely incommunicado, they only have the right to a 3-minute call, but for this, they must stand in line and fill out some information, in addition, this conversation is recorded, just like everything that happens in the rooms. “There are microphones everywhere.”

In this same way, he said that the cell phone is returned when arriving at the plane of the return flight, but in the case of the passport it takes longer, because This is delivered by the migration of the country to which you traveled, in your case, Peru.

The phases, which are experienced when entering the ‘Rejection Room’, according to Rabelo, are 4:

Credibility: Stage in which one still does not understand why he is there and cannot believe that he is going through this.
Frustration and fraternity: Where each one of those in the room tells their story and “groups” of fraternity are created.
Valuing things: Where it no longer matters if the other has the mattress, being able to share and begin to value what you have day by day.
Boredom: According to the Colombian, it is the best stage, in which each person resigns himself and just waits to be taken out.

In reference to this, he adds that there are many people who they get stuck in rage and perhaps the stay is more difficult. “Some told me that they will no longer return to Mexico.”

Despite this experience, which for some turns out to be the worst, Rabelo affirmed that for him “it is one more episode of the adventures that I do, for many people.”

It should be noted that he had a tiny camera with which he was able to document what is lived there, but he is aware that it is something prohibited and dangerous. “It is prohibited because it is inhumane, they know that they do it in a way that runs over.”

Relive the first part of this interview here:

The inhuman ‘Rejection Room’ for Colombians at the Mexico airport

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