A new caravan with nearly 4,000 migrants, including Venezuelans, left this Friday from the southern border of Mexico to the United States with demands for safety and free movement for fear of suffering a tragedy like that of the 53 migrants who died due to overcrowding in a trailer in texas this week.
The migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, left at dawn from Tapachulabordering Guatemala, bound for the municipality of Huixtla, where they will request trucks and temporary permits to travel through Mexican territory.
Conditions to avoid a tragedy
Travelers demand conditions to avoid a tragedy like the one that occurred a few days ago in the US city of San Antonio, Texas, where 53 people have died from suffocation and dehydration, including 27 Mexicans, 7 Guatemalans and 14 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government.
In the early hours of this Friday, another caravan of migrants left the municipality of Tapachula heading for the coastal highway, they ask the @INAMI_mx documents to pass through #Mexico and demand justice for the tragedy in #SanAntonio, #Texas, #USA pic.twitter.com/jjJdnvpZL5
– Chiapas Alert (@AlertaChiapas) July 1, 2022
The Venezuelan Daniel Veo denounced that walking and getting on a trailer or private units can bring fatal consequences when choosing routes that are not advisable because sometimes their fellow migrants have lost their lives.
“We are asking them to stay in organized groups because we are in a country that is not ours and (we ask) to maintain good behavior in order to continue with the destination, which is the United States,” he told Efe.
the mexican wall
This is the tenth caravan and the third largest of the year leaving Tapachula, in search of documents to circulate through Mexican territory and reach the United States.
Like the United States, the Mexican government has also faced criticism for deploying almost 30,000 agents of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern borders for migratory tasks, which leads migrants to seek alternative routes.
For the caravan this Friday, the Mexican authorities sent three contingents of the National Guard to the checkpoint in the community of Viva México, where they now limited themselves to observing the transit of the caravan, which celebrated with shouts of “Yes it might, yes it might.”
tired, exhausted, hungry, without water, but hoping Before arriving at the migratory checkpoint, where they will be able to request some document, the migrants of this caravan passed through the second migratory checkpoint in Huehuetán without the hassle of any migratory authority or the National Guard.
#Mexico | New caravan of Venezuelan migrants part of #Tapachula Due to the delay in the delivery of humanitarian visas in migration
Some 2,000 migrants, including pregnant women and children, seek to reach #Huixtlamunicipality located regarding 40 km from Tapachula.
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– En Frontera (@EnFrontera_) July 1, 2022
???? New migrant caravan leaves from #Tapachula, #Chiapasin the south of #Mexico ????????.
5 thousand foreigners seek to reach the northern border. pic.twitter.com/z1FfDfp5PY
— Lenin Vargas (@Va19360824Lenin) July 1, 2022
They arrest and lock them up
Venezuelan Irma de Jesús Torre, who arrived in Tapachula a month and a half ago, said she is afraid to travel because the authorities of the National Institute of Migration they are detained and locked up in the Siglo 21 immigration station.
“We face many obstacles that Migration puts us because there is insecurity everywhere,” he denounced. Furthermore, he commented that not going to get on the trailers because she is afraid and she and her family may have an accident.
The Texas tragedy has evoked memories for the caravan of the overturning of a truck with migrants that left almost 60 dead last December in Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala.
The migrants intend to walk this day a total of 52 kilometers to the migration checkpoint in Huixtla, from where they intend to continue their journey to the north of the country in the coming days.
At highway points, elements of the National Guard installed checkpoints to prevent migrants from traveling on tricycles, motorcycles and public transport units with the argument of guaranteeing their safety.
Record migratory flow
The caravan reflects a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended last September 30.
the mexican government reported an 89% year-on-year increase in the number of migrants presented or channeled by the immigration authority in the first quarter of 2022, adding 77,626 from January to March.
