Police agents detained more than 400 migrants who were traveling crammed into two boxes of trailers in the southern region of Veracruz.
The two migrant caravans formed in Mexico advance this Saturday through the country, in the southern state of Chiapas and in eastern Veracruz, amid obstacles such as extreme temperatures, fatigue and pressure from the authorities.
The new caravan, which has been mobilizing for three days through Chiapas with thousands of Haitian and Central American migrants, He resumed his way at dawn this Saturday to the municipality of Villa Comaltitlán with the ultimate goal of reaching Mexico City to regularize his stay.
The caravan left the church of San Francisco de Asís de Huixtla at dawn, from where they traveled about 18 kilometers until they reached Villa Comaltitlán, the fourth municipality they set foot on.
The migrants made a stop at a cargo truck parking to rest for a few hours, bathe in the Saltillito River and wash your clothes.
The civil protection authorities and the municipal police set up tents for travelers to cover themselves from the sun, as well as an ambulance to provide medical care and cure foot wounds.
Among the group was Cristian Aldahir, originally from Honduras, who said that he fled his country because did not want to belong to the gangs and he ventured to migrate to Mexico.
When he arrived on Mexican soil, he spent nine months looking for papers, but when he arrived in Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, he was returned to Tapachula, on the border of Mexico with Guatemala, so joined the caravan to obtain documents.
This caravan advances while the region lives a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “found” more than 1.7 million illegal immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30.
Mexico has detected more than 190,000 undocumented immigrants from January to September, about three times the number in 2020, in addition to having deported almost 74,300, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior
According to Luis Rey García, director of the Center for Human Dignification (CDH), this migrant movement is one of the “largest” of this six-year term and represents the “Failure of immigration policy” of the Government, which has asked the caravan not to advance and initiate procedures from wherever they are.
Some migrants who have been walking for several days have decided to surrender voluntarily to the authorities and to begin processing temporary cards that allow them to be in the country. (I)
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