TAPACHULA, Mexico– A brand-new caravan of migrants began walking from southern Mexico on Thursday toward the U.S. border, beginning from the city of Tapachula near the boundary with Guatemala.
Most of the travelers are from Venezuela, however they additionally consist of individuals from Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru and Ecuador. They have actually claimed they are tired of being obstructed from going across Mexico by the federal government.
Though previous campers have actually claimed they mean to get to the boundary– something that was virtually never ever accomplished– the travelers in the brand-new campers seem much less clear regarding where they were headed. President-elect Donald Trump has actually vowed to avoid travelers from going into the USA and stage mass deportations of those already in the country.
A number of the travelers claimed they were merely tired of being shut in in Tapachula– a city tired of holding countless travelers and one where they can not discover much job.
Giscarlis Colmenares, a 29-year-old from Venezuela, has actually been awaiting virtually 3 months for an asylum consultation via the united state CBP One application.
Colmenares claimed her instant objective was to get to Mexico City to discover “job, to ensure that we see whether we can obtain, in advance, or remain below and make adequate cash to go back to Venezuela.”
An improvisated migrant camp in midtown Mexico City was currently complete to overruning with travelers.
Some identified the troubles associated with getting to the united state
Douglas Ernesto, from El Salvador, treked in addition to the campers on Thursday, with his partner and 10-year-old child.
” Our objective is the USA, however otherwise, we’ll remain in Mexico,” Ernesto claimed, recognizing “that obtaining past Tapachula is really tough.”
The campers has little or no opportunity of making it greater than a couple of lots miles. In November, Mexican officials broke up two similar migrant caravans not much from Tapchula.
Besides the much bigger initial campers in 2018 and 2019– which were supplied buses to ride component of the means north– no campers has actually ever before gotten to the united state boundary strolling or bumming a ride in any type of natural means, though some people have actually made it.
For several years, migrant campers have actually commonly been obstructed, pestered or protected against from hitching experiences by Mexican cops and migration representatives. They have actually additionally often been assembled or gone back to locations near the Guatemalan boundary.
