A caravan of migrants, the second in less than a month, left the southern Mexican border town of Tapatsula on Thursday for members to be given papers to move freely through the Mexican border. territory.
The immigrant group is made up of about 2,000 people from Central American countries, as well as Haiti and Venezuela. It intends to reunite with another caravan that departed on October 23rd and has passed through the state of Veracruz, in southern Mexico.
“The only way to stop the caravan is for the National Immigration Institute (INM) to sign and hand out papers so that movement is free throughout the country,” said activist Luis Garcia Viagran, one of the organizers of the operation.
The caravan, of which several children are members, runs along a coastal highway in Chiapas state. He passed through an immigrant checkpoint without the slightest incident.
“Immigrants are determined, we believe the authorities will not stop us,” said Luis Garcia Vigiagran.
Many of the first caravan, which has shrunk to about 800 people, have been offered temporary residency and work permits in Mexico, but others plan to continue their journey to the United States.
The flow of illegal immigrants has risen sharply since Joe Biden took over the presidency of the United States, largely because of his promise to treat them with more humane treatment than in the days of his predecessor.
Mexican authorities counted more than 190,000 immigrants between January and September, three times as many as in 2020. Some 74,300 people were deported.
For their part, the US authorities say that they recorded the illegal entry into their territory of 1.7 million people coming from Mexico between October 2020 and September 2021, which is a record number.
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