the second caravan migrant this yearwhich departed last Friday from the Mexican city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, with the aim of reaching Mexico City, ended this Sunday with the handover to the authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM), reported the agency EFE.
The caravan in which there were many CubansThe raid, some of whom went on hunger strikes to be allowed to travel to the US border, lasted three days and barely got more than ten miles.
in the group where except for the Cubans citizens went from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Syria and other nationalities managed to establish a dialogue with the immigration authorities so that
This was so that vehicles were sent to the center of the municipality of Álvaro Obregón, where they stayed for three days and were transferred to the municipality of Huehuetán, from where they were taken to the states of Tabasco and Oaxaca, according to the authoritiesthey are granted visas on humanitarian grounds to continue their destination or, in their case, to work in Mexico.
That’s what Cuban Jorge Sánchez told EFE decided to face the INM agents to stop running, have no problems and be at peace. “They still take us to a place where we can have documents without knowing our destination,” he explained.
According to the migrant and others of his compatriots “Traveling through Mexico is becoming increasingly difficult.Therefore, they are afraid to continue walking and are very suspicious because when they arrive on Mexican territory they are taken to the Siglo XXI immigration station in Tapachula.
As of this Sunday, the caravan had a record 456 people after losing 90 after their arrest last Friday, which paradoxically helped them get their documents, according to the director of the Human Dignity Center organization in Tapachula, Luis Rey García Villagrán.
The activist pointed this out managed to get the INM to serve the migrantshowever, said he disagreed due to the methodology used by the institute, as foreigners were suspicious of where they were going.
The migrants have been trying to get in touch with Mexican authorities since Friday, but have received no response pressured with actions such as sewing up her lips with a needle and thread and her explanation hunger strike.
This Sunday, the INM representative in Chiapas, Paola López Rodas, tried to solve the problem, but The migrants wanted her to sign a long list of names and asked her to hand over a documentwhereupon the official indicated that the regularization procedures would take place in Tabasco and Oaxaca.
Even though they fought backThe migrants agreed to surrender and board INM vehicles No incidents were recorded as they stated they did not want violence and the only thing they were looking for was to be transferred to other facilities to obtain their immigration documents.
This is the second traveling caravan of the yearafter a first contingent of about 500 people left last January but barely advanced about 20 kilometers due to pressure from the authorities.
At On September 20, 2021, the Mexican authorities thwarted the advance of four migrant caravans which came off exactly from Tapachula. Then several UN agencies and non-governmental organizations criticized the use of force in the operations to break up these caravans.
Another caravan, which had been on the road for more than a month, arrived in Mexico City in mid-December.
The fallout from the Cuban migration crisis has come quickly to Mexicoits President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, planned a visit to Havana in May to speak with Miguel Díaz-Canel on the issue of Cuban migrants.
On the same Friday, delegations of parliamentarians from both countries met in Havana with the aim of “face it smuggling of migrants and human trafficking, which have dire consequences“for its citizens, EFE reported.
According to the statement issued, the two parliaments “agree on the need to continue to support the desired cooperation between our two countries ensure regular, orderly and safe migration flows“.
Mexico is facing a migration crisis with large flows of people from Central America, South America and the Caribbean, crossing the country irregularly to try to reach the US.
in these groups the proportion of Cubans has been growing steadily in recent months mainly due to the severe economic crisis the country is suffering from.
According to US immigration officials They entered between October and February United States of America a total of 47,331 Cuban migrantsafter a record 16,657 arrived at the border in February alone.
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to the Migration Policy Division of the country’s Interior Ministry.
The Mexico Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) received a record 131,448 refugee applications in 2021.