(Tuxtla Gutiérrez) A migrant caravan, the second in less than a month, left the border town of Tapachula in southern Mexico on Thursday for the center of the country where migrants will ask for papers to move around the territory Mexican.
The group is made up of some 2,000 people from Central America, Haiti and Venezuela, and are seeking to join another caravan that left the same city on October 23 and is currently in the state of Veracruz, in the south of the country.
“The only way to stop the caravan is for the National Institute of Migration (INM) to sign and hand over the papers to travel throughout the territory,” said activist Luis Garcia Villagran, one of the organizers of the group.
The caravan, which also contains minors, advanced along a coastal highway in the state of Chiapas and passed a migration checkpoint without incident.
“The migrants are motivated, we think the authorities are not going to arrest us,” added Luis Garcia Villagran.
Several migrants from the First Caravan, which now numbers around 800, agreed to receive papers allowing them to temporarily reside in Mexico, but others plan to continue their journey to the United States.
The flow of undocumented people has increased since Joe Biden came to the White House and his promise to treat them more humanely than his predecessor.
More than 190,000 migrants were counted by the Mexican authorities between January and September, three times more than in 2020. Some 74,300 people were expelled.
The United States recorded the illegal entry of 1.7 million people from Mexico into its territory between October 2020 and last September, a record.