Two caravans with 4,300 migrants try to cross Mexico to reach the United States
Both groups have been operating without authorization from the Mexican authorities.
Inmigrantes haitianos en Tapachula (Cordon-Press. Imagen de archivo).
Two caravans with 4,300 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Central America departed Monday from the city of Tapachula, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, despite the fact that they have not received permission to cross the Aztec country. In fact, they claim to have taken to the road in protest.
Their goal is to reach the municipality of Huixtla, some 40 kilometers away, where they are waiting for migration authorities to give them temporary permits to leave Chiapas. Most of these immigrants would have as their primary goal to reach the United States. The spokeswoman for one of the caravans, Alexa, a native of Venezuela, assured that this is precisely their objective.
According to DW, the caravans initially consisted of some 600 children, 1,200 women and 2,000 men. They departed at noon on Monday, and were later joined by another 400 people in an irregular migratory situation.
Border crisis
According to Customs and Border Protection data, since the start of fiscal year 2022 (October 2021) there have already been 609 immigrants killed on the U.S. side of the border, already more than the number recorded in all of 2021: 566, as reported by The Washington Examiner.
The latest report from the United Nations International Organization for Migration concluded that the U.S. -Mexico border is the land crossing where the most people die.
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