This content was published on August 28, 2021 – 18:28
Tapachula (Mexico), Aug 28 (EFE) .- A caravan of some 600 Central American, Haitian and Venezuelan migrants left the Mexican city of Tapachula, in the southeastern state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala, heading to the United States this Saturday.
Around 8:00 a.m. local time (13:00 GMT), a first group of about 300 foreigners left the central park where they managed to walk about two kilometers before joining the road.
A couple of hours later, they stopped and waited for a similar group of Haitian migrants who joined the caravan and left for the United States.
“What we want is to leave without hurting anyone in order to reach Tijuana, Hermosillo or Mazatlán, since 95% of the people want to reach the north of the country,” a Venezuelan migrant who asked the Mexican government for a corridor told Efe. humanitarian to get north.
Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, concentrates more than 125,000 migrants, many of them sleeping in the streets, who have been denouncing the collapse of the municipality for months.
The caravan has so far managed to advance only about seven kilometers in the middle of the strong heat and without being stopped by the immigration authorities.
The foreigners managed to pass the first checkpoint in the community of Viva México, the main exit from Tapachula, which leads to the state capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
In the state of Chiapas there are more than 14,000 elements of the Army, the Navy and the National Guard to stop the migratory flows from Central America.
Migration has increased in Mexico since October 2018, when caravans with thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans, began to enter the country to reach the United States.
When President Joe Biden arrived at the White House, he suspended his predecessor Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” program, which forced asylum seekers to await their hearing from Mexican territory, thousands of whom were stranded in border camps. .
The flow picked up again so that the United States detained 212,672 undocumented immigrants at its southern border last July, the highest number in 20 years.
Last Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court upheld a judge’s order that reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” program. EFE
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