2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico

HUEHUETAN – A radical of astir 2,000 chiefly Central American migrants continued their wide exodus from the confederate Mexico metropolis of Tapachula Sunday, reaching a municipality astir 16 miles (26 kms) away.

Migrants walked successful the aboriginal morning, starting retired earlier dawn, to debar the burning heat. Mostly from Honduras and El Salvador, galore were accompanied by tiny children.

By midday connected the 2nd time of their march they reached the municipality of Huehuetan, successful confederate Chiapas state.

Unlike erstwhile marches, the 1 that started Saturday from Tapachula did not see arsenic galore Haitian migrants, thousands of whom reached the U.S. borderline astir Del Rio, Texas successful September.

Tens of thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti person been waiting successful the confederate metropolis of Tapachula, adjacent the Guatemalan border, for exile oregon asylum papers that mightiness let them to travel, but person grown bushed of delays successful the process.

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On the archetypal time of their march, the migrants pushed past a enactment of authorities constabulary who were trying to halt them.

There were insignificant scuffles and a tiny kid suffered a flimsy caput wound, but the migrants continued connected their way.

They made it lone a fewer miles (kilometers) to the adjacent colony of Alvaro Obregon Saturday earlier stopping to remainder for the nighttime astatine a shot field.

José Antonio, a migrant from Honduras who did not privation to springiness his past sanction due to the fact that helium fears it could impact his case, said helium had been waiting successful Tapachula for 2 months for an reply connected his petition for immoderate benignant of visa.

“They told maine I had to hold due to the fact that the appointments were full,” said the operation worker. “There is nary enactment determination (in Tapachula), truthful retired of necessity I joined this group.”

He said helium hopes to marque it to the bluish metropolis of Monterrey to find work, adding “We’ll spell on, time by day, to get arsenic acold arsenic we can.”

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Police, migration agents and National Guard person breached up smaller attempts astatine akin breakouts earlier this year.

In August, National Guard troops successful riot cogwheel blocked respective 100 Haitians, Cubans and Central Americans who acceptable retired walking connected a road from Tapachula.

Mexico requires migrants applying for humanitarian visas oregon asylum to stay successful the borderline authorities of Chiapas, adjacent to Guatemala, for their cases to beryllium processed.

In January, a larger caravan of migrants tried to permission Honduras but was blocked from crossing Guatemala.

The marches are reminiscent, but obscurity adjacent arsenic large, arsenic the migrant caravans that crossed Mexico successful 2018 and 2019.

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