The caravan with more than 1,500 migrants that left this week from the southern border of Mexico faces this Tuesday, like other similar groups, with the blockade of authorities, who prevent them from leaving Chiapas, bordering Central America.
Amid pressure from the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, for Mexico to control the migratory flow, the contingent left the municipality of Huixtla at 5:00 a.m. at a slow pace, with some on bicycles and tricycles, flanked by the National Guard and municipal police.
The undocumented immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, reported to EFE that elements of the National Migration Institute (INM), since their arrival in Huixtla, have remained in their surroundings and chase them along the road, where this Tuesday they tried to detain a family, but the migrants themselves prevented it.
The foreigners asked for understanding from the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who last week assured in a call with Trump that the caravans “no longer reach” the border with the United States, while the president-elect has promised 25% tariffs on Mexican products. if it does not stop “the invasion” of migrants and drugs.
“The president of Mexico must provide us with the support to reach Mexico City, where there are more sources of work, and wait for the ‘CBP One’ appointment (to request asylum in the US) calmly because other states are more dangerous,” said the Venezuelan. Genaro Cardenas.
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This South American travels by bicycle with a group of compatriots, who hope to reach their destination despite the obstacles and pressure from Immigration agents to convince them to return to the southern border.
“We fear that they will dismantle us and return us to Tapachula, so we will continue forward,” Cárdenas warned.
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Sheinbaum has promised a humanitarian immigration strategy with an industrial hub in southern Mexico, while maintaining that daily migrant encounters at the United States border have fallen 75% since December 2023.
But in the caravan are migrants like Venezuelan Bryan Joan, who said he feels bad because the Government does not provide them with support and does not allow them to travel to Mexico City.
“In Tapachula there is no work at all, apart from Immigration tells us one thing, that ‘we are going to help you’, where it is totally a lie and people get in the combis (vans) and return back and are held for up to three days in (the immigration station) 21st century in Tapachula,” he said.
Venezuelan Antonio José also asked the Government of Mexico to change immigration policy on the ground to treat people more humanely and “not deceive them.”
Meanwhile, groups from the Government’s Comprehensive Family System (DIF) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provide medical care and cures to migrants with injuries to their feet.
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Salvadoran Fabiola Flores told EFE that, during her journey along the Huixtla-Villa Comaltitlán highway, “there are about 20 injured people with blisters, dehydration and sores.”
“We all come in peace, we do not want to create public disorder, we just want to reach our destination and rest, the truth is, (the authority) tries to intimidate us, persuade us to stop the walk,” he commented.
With information from EFE
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