Tapachula.- Elements of the National Guard (GN), agents of the National Migration Institute (INM), backed by the military, tried to dismantle a caravan of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, the Savior, Honduras i Guatemala, Which departed from this city this Saturday morning.
Early in the middle of music and dancing, the caravan continued on its way under the strong rays of sunshine and temperature of 38 degrees.
The contingent, made up of men, women and children managed to cross a first migratory dependencies located in the ejido Long live Mexico, About 15 miles from Tapachula.
Five kilometers ahead, on the cruise that connects the municipality of Mazatán, A group of agents from the National Migration Institute who were traveling in combos guarded by a National Guard patrol, arrested some thirty migrants that they were left behind, registering a first confrontation, where one minor Haitian she was injured in the head by a stone blow.
At 12:00 noon, the contingent crossed the Huehuetán migration checkpoint, where the migration agents did not prevent them from passing.
About 15 kilometers from Huixtla, where the president was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Dozens of Army vehicles, National Guard and of the INM – headed by high military leaders they encapsulated to the migrants part to avoid that they advanced to the place where was the Executive.
The bulk of the caravan members – Haitians and Cubans – fled to the mountains with their children and wives. Others were subjected.
Some of the Central American migrants they threw stones at federal and military agents, who retreated. They also managed to rescue some of his fellow detainees who were in a truck, which was stoned.
At 19:00 hundreds of migrants who managed to break the military siege gathered and continued on their way under heavy rain. Several women with theirs sick children with temperature, diarrhea and headache they chose to indulge.
According to unofficial information, another will be released next Monday caravan of Tapachula in protest of the bureaucracy of the migration authorities and the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) to grant refugee status.
According to unofficial information, another Tapachula caravan will leave next Monday in protest of the INM bureaucracy. Photo: Mary of Jesus Peters. the Universal
Increasing complaint
Since last Monday, Haitian migrants, Central and South Americans staged protests to demand the speeding up of their asylum application documents so that they can travel to other states of the country, due to overcrowding of foreigners in that city.
The Caribbean people demanded that the authorities stop the abuses against them, stop imprisoning them in the 21st Century migration station and not “throw them” in Guatemala without any documents, as this violates international agreements.
The migrants explained that Tapachula is saturated with migrants of various nationalities and about 30,000 Haitians are stranded, as well as Cubans, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Colombians and Nicaraguans, among other nationalities.
the Caribbean they assured that they are desperate for the fact that there is no work, They are sick, with no money to feed themselves and pay the rent for homes that are very high.
“Migrants want to get out of here, there is nothing to live on, there is no home, no job, we are living on the street sick and with nothing; help us,” a 55-year-old woman cried last Thursday.
It is estimated that in this city there are about 30,000 Haitians in the process of processing the application for asylum, together with migrants from Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, the Savior, Nicaragua, Honduras, Among other nationalities.
Many of them live on the street without a job and even some with their children, who look sick.
To survive, a group of Haitians settled in the vicinity of the Sebastian market to sell traditional food, clothing, footwear, synthetic hair for braids and wigs, beauty items, bottled water and soft drinks.
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