On the eve of visit of a delegation from USA to deal with the migration crisis, a A caravan with more than 10,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border on Sunday in the middle of Christmas Eve to put pressure on both governments. The thousands of migrants from 24 nationalities came from the border town of Tapachula in the southern Mexican state Chiapas, early Sunday morning and dared to walk to Álvaro Obregón, where they spent a complicated Christmas. He US Secretary of State Antony Blinkenvisits Mexico on Wednesday to address the unprecedented flow of migrants that surged in December.
Mostly this contingent of people Children, women and entire familiesran along federal highway 200 and crossed the first checkpoint Ejido Viva Mexicowhere only National Guard personnel and the National Migration Institute (INM).
Civil protection officer Julissa Esther Briones Magaña confirmed this to the Efe news agency 10,000 people in the context of mobilityfor which he advised the migrant population to protect their health and that of their children, while urging motorists to exercise caution due to the massive exodus of people.
The biggest exodus of the year
According to Luis Rey García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignity (CDH)This caravan is the largest exodus this year and could include 15,000 people who will walk as many days as possible to get there Mexico City in your first point.
“There is a plug and a human knot that is reflected in this group that we lead. We tell the Mexican state that it leaves us no choice but to take the road to the INM and the finger of the.” President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Say yes or no. “Today we are the poorest of the poorest of those who are at the height of need, those of us who have no money to pay for visas or polleros,” Villagrán said.
This was said by Venezuelan migrant Jesús Silva, who is traveling with his wife Hidalgo city Immigration officials loaded him into a unit and took him to the Siglo 21 immigration station, where they were given a document to leave Mexico. “Actually the option is to walk. I trust in the caravan because there we feel safer with Latin American brothers who leave with a new dream and a hope for life,” shared Silva.
Honduran migrant José Wilmer Fernández Caballero, who expressed his positive determination Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar)tried to leave Chiapas but immigration authorities tell them it is worthless and useless.
“It was pointless to spend so much time in Tapachula, a waste of time. They always take me out and bring me back. Here we have a positive intention, but they always take me off the bus and tell me it's worthless,” he said.
The mass caravan about four hours away on foot Tapachula to the Álvaro Obregón Ejido, where they spent Christmas under trees, roofs, on the weeds, the ground, cardboard, mats and sheets that they carry in order to be able to spend this night that should be familiar to them and in which they, however, have chosen have this trip to reach the United States.