The migrant caravan that left this week from the southern border of Mexico stalled this Wednesday in the municipality of Escuintla, Chiapas, where they hope to regain strength to advance despite the blockade and the presence of agents from the National Migration Institute (INM) and the National guard.
Eliezer, spokesperson and representative of this migrant caravan, told EFE that two people have turned themselves in to the authorities because they cannot stand the heat and the blisters on their feet, although there are still 80% of the 1,500 people who left on Monday because They hope to reach Mexico City.
“Here we go with everything, people are willing to do whatever it takes to move forward, so I ask the Mexican Government to help them with water to continue on their path,” said the migrant.
Some members of the contingent, mostly from Venezuela, expressed that they would stay in Tapachula if the Government keeps its promise to guarantee security and jobs.
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Venezuelan José Gregorio Campos Mesa, who travels with his family, assured that they are looking for better stability and a job where the salary is decent for migrants because in Tapachula he spent two months working as a barber to support his family.
“For those who do not have a way to work in a barbershop, whoever helps or supports them, the situation becomes stronger and, for this reason, those who seek to reach a city in the north leave in caravans to be able to have money to pay rent, meals. and have job stability without having to flee or expose oneself to insecurity,” he said.
The Honduran Marvin stated that if the authorities offer well-paid jobs they would stay because the majority of people who travel seek to reach the north of Mexico or the United States to work, change their future and achieve well-being.
“Most people will stay for a little while, working for a little while, and from there they continue in a way of settling in for a couple of months and from there continue slowly, one follows (the path) by the signs, one is afraid,” he commented.
A group of INM agents arrived in Escuintla this Wednesday to offer transfers to families to take them to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, and to single men to the neighboring state of Campeche.
The migrants are stalled after President Claudia Sheinbaum assured in a call with the elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, that the caravans “no longer reach” the border with the United States, amid the threat of 25% tariffs. to Mexican products if it does not stop migrants and drugs.
With information from EFE
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