A mobilization made up of hundreds of migrants left on Saturday, October 5, from the city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, bound for the Mexican capital as their first destination and will seek to advance to the northern border, to reach the United States, without accompaniment of organizations or activists.
The migrant caravan is the first after the first days of the Government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, to whom the migrants asked for a “humane, sensitive border, free movement and greater security in the presence of organized crime.”
“The federal, state and municipal governments are going to provide support to this caravan with public security and civil protection agents, as well as paramedics, with the aim of ensuring that they have a peaceful exit from our municipality,” said the Secretary of Civil Protection. from Tapachula, Luis Demetrio Martínez, prior to the departure of the caravan from the Miguel Hidalgo central park.
This group of undocumented people from Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Central America, Haiti and African countries, prior to their departure, knelt down and prayed to ask for a safe path and that the Mexican authorities allow them to advance to their destination. .
“More humane” immigration policy
Venezuelan Maryoris Blanco, who walks with her family, trusted that the president of Mexico has good job proposals, but a “more humane” immigration policy is required and that migrants be included because they seek free transit to reach the northern border. with the United States.
“Sometimes they really see us as invaders, but we are not invaders, we are a country that is very bad: Venezuela and now it is going to get worse, that is what we ask for it to be more humane, more sensitive, to get some kind of relief from us.” of document and that they leave us alone,” he says.
While Colombian migrant Rodrigo Álvarez assures that many, like him, go with the intention of looking for their families who are in the United States and decided to leave Tapachula because they have spent enough time and are running out of money.
“We all unite to come with greater security, because in small groups we are all abused by the Mexican population, we ask President Sheinbaum to support us safely so that we are not abused by so much violence,” he noted.
The mass departure of migrants occurs four days after the Mexican Army revealed that last Tuesday, the day of Sheinbaum’s takeover, two soldiers killed six migrants of Egyptian, Salvadoran and Peruvian nationality after mistaking them for criminals while they were transporting in two vehicles in a section between Villa Comaltitlán and Huixtla, municipalities of Chiapas.
Sheinbaum said Friday that there is a strategy to stop the arrival of migrants to Mexico and prevent their crossing into the United States, which includes repatriation flights to the countries of origin.
During the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), the role of the Armed Forces in security tasks in the country increased.
The daily detention of migrants at the United States border has fallen 66% from December to September, according to the Mexican Government, but irregular migration through Mexico rose 193% year-on-year in the first half of the year to exceed 712,000 people, according to the Migration Policy Unit.
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