Tapachula, Mexico.
one caravan of about 600 migrants centreamericans, Haitians i Venezuelans left this Saturday from the Mexican city of Tapachula, In the southeastern state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala, in the direction of United States.
Around 8.00 local time (13.00 GMT), a first group of about 300 foreigners left Central Park where they managed to walk about two kilometers before joining the road.
A couple of hours later, they made a stop and waited for a similar group of Haitian migrants who joined the caravan and left for the United States.
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“What we want is to go without hurting anyone in order to get to Tijuana, Hermosillo or Mazatlán, as 95% of people want to get to the north of the country,” a Venezuelan migrant told Efe who asked the ‘ Mexican government a humanitarian corridor to reach the north.
Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, Concentrates more than 125,000 migrants, many of them sleeping on the streets, who have been denouncing the collapse of the municipality for months.
The caravan has so far managed to advance just about seven kilometers in the heat and without being stopped by the immigration authorities.
The foreigners managed to pass the first control in the community of Long live Mexico, main exit of Tapachula, which leads to the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez.
In the state of Chiapas there are more than 14,000 items in the army, the Marina and the National Guard to stop the migratory flows of Central America.
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Migration has increased in Mexico since October 2018, when caravans with thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans, began entering the country to reach the United States.
When the president Joe Biden arrived at the White house, Suspended the “permenecer a mexico” program of his predecessor, Donald Trump, which forced asylum seekers to wait for their hearing from Mexican territory, thousands of whom were stranded in border camps.
The flow picked up again so that the United States arrested 212,672 undocumented people on its southern border last July, the highest figure in 20 years.
Last Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court endorsed the order of a judge who reinstated the program “Staying in Mexico.”