A caravan of migrants on the southern border of Mexico demanded this Thursday conditions to travel safely and avoid a tragedy like the one in Texas, United States, where they have died 53 migrants since Monday after being crowded into a trailer.
The caravan of thousands of migrants that will leave this Friday from Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, asked the Government of Mexico for buses to through a humanitarian corridor that reaches Nuevo León, a state that borders the United States.
The migrants indicated that they carry with them some 53 pregnant women and 1, 000 children who will travel along the coastal highway in order to reach the immigration customs of Huixtla, Chiapas.
Jonathan Enrique Ávila, a migrant from Venezuela, indicated that if necessary pay for the fuel of the buses, they would all be willing to cooperate in order to avoid more risks in their transit.
In this new exodus, he estimated that about 8 people could walk 000 from countries such as Venezuela and Haiti, regions such as Africa and Asia, and even accompanied by Mexicans who are also looking to cross into the United States.
“We are asking the Mexican authorities to protect us on the highways, to go with us at all times because it is a peaceful caravan march,” said Ávila.
Migrants stranded in southern Mexico have shown solidarity with the 53 migrants who have died since an abandoned trailer was found Monday in the US city of San Antonio, Texas, including 27 Mexicans, 7 Guatemalans and 14 Hondurans.
In fear of a similar fate, the Venezuelan Hilbert Silva demanded that the Mexican authorities respect their human rights and allow them to travel freely, because they do not seek to remain in national territory. ional.
“What we need is to get out of Tapachula, because we are all sleeping on the ground under the roof of the park, where there are sick children and women,” he commented.
Despite the risks, his compatriot Víctor Arenas warned that the caravan it will not stop.
“Now we can be 1,000 or 2,000 but on Friday the number of people who require their documents to reach the United States will increase”, he commented.
In the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, the main place of origin of the caravans, the migrants are concentrating to leave on foot, since they did not find the agility in their procedures to obtain their temporary travel permits.
Other groups of migrants have handed in their IDs at the regularization offices of the National Institute of Migration (INM), because they have trusted that they can enter obtain temporary permits of 30 days to travel through national territory and not be part of this migrant caravan.
These caravans reflect the record migratory flow to the United States, where the CBP detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended on 30 from last September.
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