According to the information collected by the EFE news agency, at least 1,000 people including Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Salvadorans, Haitians, Guatemalans and Cubans are moving through the state of Tapachula bound for the town of Arriaga in Chiapas as part of the road that undertakes the first immigrant caravan of 2023 that has the southern border of the United States as its final destination.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico reported that this new agglomeration of people seeking better job opportunities in the United States left Tapachula, a border state that borders Guatemala. In addition, they detailed that a part of these immigrants have documents issued by the INM but the majority move northwards irregularly.
In this sense, it is expected that this year the flow of immigrants will be greater compared to the year 2022. The figures of the National Immigration Service in Panama warned at the beginning of the year that between January and February the same number of people were registered at the control points that in the first five months of 2022. This number is around the 31,000 people who crossed the Darien jungle on regular roads. These figures are mostly people of Haitian origin.
Chiapas as a new epicenter
According to information published by the EFE news agency, Chiapas has become one of the points where immigrants from various parts of the American region congregate to try to cross into the United States. Now, faced with the new immigration crisis, people will have to face separations from families who made the journey to achieve “the American dream”, delays in regularization paperwork and arrests.
Even so, Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, assured in early February that Joe Biden’s new policies have produced results in the region to control the flow of immigrants. But this position of López Obrador would not be shared by the population of the United States.
According to the Gallup research firm, Americans are less and less “satisfied” with Biden’s management on the southern border. The study certifies that the Democratic president has 63% rejection of his management at the border.
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