For Venezuelans, the new US measure “is not humanitarian”, since it leaves them stranded in Mexico without any support.
A caravan of more than a thousand migrants from Venezuela left the southern border of Mexico this Friday despite the new immigration restrictions announced by the United States to contain the growing migratory flow.
The migrants left on foot at dawn from Tapachula, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, bound for the US border.
This is because they do not want to be stranded in Central America or in Mexican territory.
This is the first caravan of migrants from Venezuela since the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday the immediate expulsion of Venezuelans who arrive in the United States by crossing the border with Mexico.
Gabriela Pérez, a migrant from Venezuela, told EFE that they will not stop on the highway because the situation for Venezuelans is “difficult and critical.”
“We hope to meet with more groups of regarding 1,000 or 500 that go further ahead and we will walk as necessary, we do not plan to make any kind of scandal in your country (Mexico), since the destination is the United States,” said the woman.
For Venezuelans, the decision of the United States “is not humanitarian”, because they are leaving them in Mexico without any support.
“They send us to Mexico, then to Venezuela, and who wants to return following having suffered so much? That is why we are walking to reach our destination, nothing backwards, everything forward,” migrant Jordi Moisés Taborda told EFE.
The group of people, who have walked in the dark and lit only by the light of the vehicles that circulate on the highway, requested an extension of regarding 15 days for people who are already in transit through Mexico.
Otoniel Ferrer, barely 20 years old, is a migrant from Venezuela who left his family in his country to venture for the first time to seek luck in the United States.
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