A caravan of more than 10,000 migrants left Tapachula in southern Mexico on Sunday, December 24th. Mexicoto make a long walk to the border USA. Organizers are calling the mobilization an “exodus from poverty.”
Is about the largest hiking caravan to form this year. It takes place during a high-level delegation USA visit Mexico negotiate with the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador new measures to control the growing influx of migrants.
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Accordingly Luis Rey Garcia VillagranDirector of Center for Human Dignity (CDH)The caravan could exceed 15,000 people in the following days as even more migrants would join before reaching the caravan Mexico Cityhis first target.
The caravan's organizers are protesting the slow pace of immigration regulatory processes in the border city Tapachula and the lack of adequate living and work opportunities, according to Univisión.
These are the keys to the greatest Hiking caravan of the year:
Migrants are walking in a caravan this Tuesday to reach Mexico's northern border. (EFE/Juan Manuel Blanco).
What nationalities are they?
The Hiking caravanmainly children, women and entire families, will arrive in the community this Wednesday Escuintlain the state of Chiapas.
Accordingly Garcia Villagranthe group consists of People with 24 nationalitieswhere they predominate Central Americans, Venezuelans and Cubans.
As the AP agency notes, Mexico has deployed more than 32,000 elements of the armed forces and the National Guard for immigration enforcement, and the National Guard now detains many more migrants than criminals.
But if there are huge Caravan like right now, Mexico It allows them to move forward, confident that they will get tired of walking on the road and that it will eventually disintegrate. So far, no caravan has traveled the 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the border with the United States, AP said.
Benigno Sánchez, a Cuban immigrant, told CNN: “We are afraid to speak… We have economic needs.” We have a dream to work honestly. What can I tell you? Unfortunately, we live in a corrupt government.”
The White House is considering restoring controversial Title 42.
a policy used during the Covid-19 pandemic by former President Donald Trump that allowed the immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants without giving them the opportunity to seek asylum.
A migrant's journey from Venezuela to the United States. (AFP).
What do migrants demand?
Garcia Villagran He's been saying that since September The National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico has “blocked” the issuance of travel permits through Mexico. to foreigners who remain in the country TapachulaGateway for thousands of migrants.
“Maybe it was an order from the United States, we don't know, but there is a blockade and a human knot that is reflected in this group of people that we are leading today,” the activist told EFE at the start of the march the middle Tapachula.
Previously, documents provided by Mexican authorities allowed migrants to move throughout the country.
Migrants walk in a caravan towards the border with the United States. (EFE/Juan Manuel Blanco).
What do Mexico and the United States say?
A delegation of high-ranking officials UNITED STATES, under the direction of the Foreign Minister Anthony BlinkenHe will meet with the president on Wednesday Andres Manuel Lopez ObradorThis is seen by many as an attempt by the Mexican government to do more to stem the flow of migrants.
Lopez Obrador He has stated that he is ready to help, but also assured that he wanted progress in the United States' relations with Cuba and Venezuela – two of the countries that send the most migrants – as well as more help for the development of the region the agency. AP.
The President of Mexico announced that “essentially” it will be a matter of taking measures to strengthen the stop of migrants in the south of the country.
USA It is struggling to process the thousands of migrants at the border or provide them with shelter when they arrive in cities in the north of the country.
Migrants at the Mexico-United States border. (AFP).
At the conference, Flash will insist on compliance Los Angeles Statementin which around twenty Latin American countries, including MexicoAccording to EFE, they committed to allowing migrants to stay legally so that not all of them go to the United States.
The meeting was agreed by the two leaders last Thursday Biden called López Obrador concerned about the extent of the migration crisis.
242,000 illegal migrants were arrested
in November at the border by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Last week, the US briefly closed two major border crossings in Texas with the argument that border guards would have to be redeployed to deal with the high number of border crossings.
Another border crossing remains closed Lukeville, Arizonaand operations were partially suspended San Diego and Nogales, Arizona. U.S. officials said those closures were carried out to reassign agents to help process migrants.
Before you arrived in Mexico, Flash left open the possibility of reopening these crossings in this case Mexico provide more help.
“The Secretary Flash “We will discuss the unprecedented irregular migration in the Western Hemisphere and identify ways that Mexico and the United States are addressing border security challenges, including measures that allow the reopening of key ports of entry along our shared border,” his office said in a statement issued at the meeting on Wednesday.
An improvised refugee camp in the Tlahuac area of Mexico City. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP).
The situation at the border between Mexico and the United States
At the moment, More than 11,000 migrants are in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the borderMany of them hope to enter the United States through legal channels set up by the president's administration. Joe BidenCNN reported.
In TijuanaAbout 3,800 migrants from countries including Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela remain in shelters in Mexico, according to Enrique Lucero, director of immigration affairs for the state.
Lucero told CNN that there are cases where migrants lose patience and decide to enter the United States illegally rather than wait for their appointment CBP Onean application that provides an opportunity to seek asylum in the United States while at the border with Mexico.
Asylum applications in the United States. (AFP).
In ReynosaAccording to Héctor Silva, the pastor who runs the facilities, another 3,273 migrants are waiting in Senda De Vida shelters in Mexico, according to CNN.
In MatamorosAbout 4,000 immigrants live in camps, shelters and abandoned houses.