On the eve of the visit of a delegation of USA To address the migration crisis, a caravan of more than 10,000 migrants left the southern border of Mexico in the middle of Christmas Eve to put pressure on both governments.
The thousands of migrants of 24 nationalities walked from the border city of Tapachulain the southern Mexican state of Chiapasearly this Sunday morning and they risked walking to Alvaro Obregonwhere they will go through a complicated Christmas.
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This contingent of people, mostly children, women and entire familieswalked along federal highway 200 and crossed the first checkpoint of the Ejido Viva México, where only personnel from the National Guard and of National Migration Institute (INM).
The delegate of Civil protection, Julissa Esther Briones Magaña confirmed to EFE that There are 10,000 people in a mobility contextfor which he recommended that the migrant population safeguard their health and that of their children and at the same time asked drivers to drive with caution due to this massive exodus of people.
In accordance with Luis Rey García Villagrandirector of Center for Human Dignification (CDH), This caravan is the largest exodus of this year and could exceed 15,000 people who will walk the days they can to reach the Mexico City in your first point.
Migrants participate in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on December 24, 2023. (Photo by AFP).
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“There is a plug and a human knot that is reflected in this group that we lead, We tell the Mexican state that it leaves us no choice but to walk along the road until the INM and the finger of the president of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, say yes or no. Today we are the poorest of the poorest of those who are at the height of need, those of us who do not have money to pay for visas or polleros,” he said. Villagran.
Venezuelan migrant Jesús Silva, who is traveling with his wife, told EFE that in Ciudad Hidalgo the immigration agents loaded him into a unit and took him to the Siglo 21 immigration station.where they were given a job to leave Mexico.
“The option really is to walk, I rely on the caravanbecause it is where we feel safer with brothers latinos that we are leaving with a new dream, with a hope for life,” Silva shared.
The migrant honduran José Wilmer Fernández Caballero, who showed his positive resolution of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar), has tried to leave Chiapasbut the immigration authorities tell them that it is worthless and that it is of no use.
“It was useless to spend so much time in Tapachulalost time, they always take me down and bring me back, here we have a positive resolution, but they always get me off the combi (bus) and tell me it’s worthless”, he recounted.
This caravan walked about four hours from Tapachula to the ejido Alvaro Obregonwhere its members will live Christmas under trees, roofs, on the weeds, the floor, cardboard, mats and sheets that they carry to be able to spend this night that should be familiar, in peace and with great joy, but in which they have undertaken this trip in order to reach the USA.
