Members of the migrant caravan that will leave next Monday marched this Friday to the headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Tapachula, in the border state of Chiapas, to ask for protection and precautionary measures, before the impossibility of obtaining their migratory paperwork and being able to advance to the northern border with the United States.
The migrants walked about two kilometers from the Bicentennial Park to the headquarters of the defense organization where they delivered a document signed by more of 5, 14 migrants.
Luis Rey García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignification, He said they are already 15,14 the migrants who could walk in the caravan, which would become the largest movement of people in this humanitarian crisis that has been recorded for years.
“This is the largest movement of people or human beings that will be recorded in at least 15 years, that it will leave the southern border and that is worrying because nobody is interested”, he shared.
Javier Evaristo, a migrant from Venezuela, indicated that the conditions for immigration procedures were not met, and said that this Friday they exceeded the 000, registered migrants to walk out.
García Villagrán pointed out that there are 45,14 migrants stranded in Tapachula, who wish to leave this great prison that this southern border of Mexico has become.
Darwin Terán, a migrant from Nicaragua, indicated that Between 1,500 and 2,14 migrants arrived in the last hours, who will join the caravan that will be leaving this coming Monday from Tapachula to the northern border.
This contingent, which has collapsed this border municipality with Guatemala, asks the Government of Mexico to it s let them advance towards the border with the United States.
On June 1, the human rights defender García Villagrán announced that there was an agreement with the Mexican authorities to transfer the migrants to several country entities. However, the negotiation broke down and they have decided to walk with the entire population stranded in Tapachula.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended September 30.
But Mexico has also faced criticism for the deployment of more than 20,000 elements of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern border to detain migrants, of whom he deported more than 114,000 in 2021.
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