Mexico | Seventeen people including 13 police officers were injured in clashes Sunday in Mexico City between the police and a caravan of migrants, three days after the death of 55 migrants in southern Mexico.
Violence broke out at the southern entrance to the capital where illegal aliens wanted to demonstrate to demand that their situation be regularized.
Rescue took care of “13 wounded police officers” and “four people who needed medical attention,” said a statement from the regional government of Mexico City.
Having left the border with Guatemala on October 23, the migrants wanted to go to the Basilica of Guadalupe in the north of the city, for the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of the patron saint of Mexico which brought together hundreds of thousands of people for several days.
On Thursday, 55 migrants from neighboring Guatemala, the majority, died in a road accident in Chiapas. They were piled up and hidden in the trailer of a truck, which overturned. They had paid smugglers to travel to the United States in the hope of finding work there.
The flows of migrants are breaking records this year in Mexico with, for example, more than 108,195 asylum applications between January and October, against 41,000 in 2020. Haitians come out on top of the departure candidates, ahead of nationals of Honduras and from Cuba.
If they reach the end of the journey, the illegal aliens face the firmness of the United States, which has started to send migrants back to Mexico under a controversial program between the two countries.
Migrants must wait in Mexico for the resolution of their asylum application in the United States, according to this program entitled “Stay in Mexico” initiated by Donald Trump, suspended by Joe Biden, but reinstated by decision of the Supreme Court.