2,000 Migrants Continue Walk Through Southern Mexico – NBC Los Angeles

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A gaggle of round 2,000 largely Central American migrants continued their mass exodus from the southern Mexican metropolis of Tapachula on Sunday, reaching a metropolis about 16 miles away.

Migrants set out early within the morning to keep away from the burning warmth. Principally from Honduras and El Salvador, many have been accompanied by babies.

On the second day of their march, they reached the town of Huehuetan within the southern state of Chiapas round midday.

In contrast to earlier marches that started Saturday from Tapachula, not as many Haitian migrants took half, with 1000’s reaching the U.S. border round Del Rio, Texas in September.

Tens of 1000’s of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti are ready within the southern metropolis of Tapachula close to the Guatemalan border for refugee or asylum papers that would allow them to journey, however are uninterested in the delays within the course of.

On the primary day of their march, the migrants pushed previous a line of state cops attempting to cease them.

There was minor scuffle and a younger youngster suffered a minor head harm, however the migrants continued on their approach.

They made it only a few miles (kilometers) to the close by village of Alvaro Obregon on Saturday earlier than stopping for an evening relaxation on a baseball subject.

José Antonio, a migrant from Honduras who refused to offer his final identify as a result of he feared it’d have an effect on his case, mentioned he had been ready in Tapachula for 2 months for a response to his utility for some sort of visa.

“They instructed me I needed to wait as a result of the appointments have been totally booked,” mentioned the development employee. “There isn’t a work there (in Tapachula), so I joined this group out of necessity.”

He mentioned he hopes to make it to the northern metropolis of Monterrey to seek out work, including, “We’ll maintain going day after day to get so far as attainable.”

Police, immigration authorities and the Nationwide Guard deserted minor makes an attempt at comparable outbreaks earlier this yr.

In August, Nationwide Guard forces in riot gear blocked a number of hundred Haitians, Cubans and Central People strolling alongside a freeway from Tapachula.

Mexico requires migrants making use of for humanitarian visas or asylum to remain within the border state of Chiapas, Guatemala, so their circumstances may be processed.

In January, a bigger caravan of migrants tried to depart Honduras however have been prevented from crossing Guatemala.

The marches are reminiscent, however not practically as massive, of the migrant caravans that crossed Mexico in 2018 and 2019.