2023-12-26 21:16:09
The police continued to monitor their movements along with the National Guard. The immigration agents made no attempt to stop them when they passed through the checkpoints.
The caravan of migrants that left the border with Guatemala on Christmas Eve continued walking along the roads of Chiapas on Tuesday, asking the governments of the United States and Mexico to instead of tightening immigration policy, offer greater employment opportunities for those leaving their countries. fleeing poverty or violence.
“Ask for protection, that they give me political protection, because I cannot return to Colombia, or that they give me the opportunity to stay in a country where I can regularize myself and work and raise my family,” claimed Norbey Díaz Ríos, 46 years and who travels with his wife and two children.
The group, of about 6,000 people, is the largest that has formed this year and began walking just before a high-level delegation from the United States meets on Wednesday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to agree on new measures of control of the growing flow of migrants through the region.
On Tuesday, the migrants made a symbolic protest as they passed by the main customs office on Mexico’s southern border, in the municipality of Huixtla, which was guarded by a dozen National Guard agents with anti-riot equipment.
The foreigners knelt for a few moments and said a prayer before continuing on their way to Villa Comaltitlán, 60 kilometers north of where they began walking, without any confrontations.
The police continued to monitor their movements along with the National Guard. The immigration agents made no attempt to stop them when they passed through the checkpoints.
“The only thing we want is to work,” said Honduran Marvin Orellana, who also travels with his wife and daughter and asked politicians to look back at them so they can see what they are going through.
The region is experiencing an unprecedented migratory flow that has not been controlled despite the United States’ attempts to open new channels to emigrate legally while toughening the consequences of doing so irregularly.
More than half a million migrants, many of them Venezuelans, crossed the Darién jungle this year, on the border between Colombia and Panama. Mexico detected more than 680,000 foreigners in an irregular situation from January to November, according to official figures.
In addition, a record number of almost 137,000 people requested refuge in this country.
The situation worsened in December on the border between Mexico and the United States when US authorities recorded up to 10,000 illegal crossings on some days, a totally unusual figure that caused temporary closures at some crossings.
The migrants who make up the caravan do not seem concerned that the measures against them will be toughened.
“I’m afraid of staying in Cuba, of dying of hunger, that does scare me,” said Dayron Salazar, a Cuban taxi driver who was traveling with several friends.
“We are going all or nothing,” said Honduran José Paz, who was walking with his wife and four children, the youngest four months old, the oldest 13.
The formation of these groups has been constant in recent years due to the slowness of immigration regulation processes in Mexico and the lack of decent living and work options so that foreigners can afford to wait for documents.
On this occasion, the majority are Central Americans, Venezuelans, Cubans and Colombians, but there are also migrants from African and Asian countries.
“You don’t know if you’re going to achieve it or what obstacles you’re going to encounter along the way,” added Colombian Díaz Ríos. “This is something uncertain,” he said as he continued walking.
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