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Thousands of migrants in caravan through Mexico towards the USA
Migrants who say they cannot afford to wait longer set off in a caravan towards the USA. photo
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In Mexico, around 5,000 people have joined together in a caravan to protect themselves from violence and deportation. Your destination is the border with the USA.
Several thousand migrants are in the south Mexico formed a caravan to head north towards the USA.
The police counted around 5,000 people, mainly from Honduras, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador and Guatemala, as local media reported. There are many women with small children among them. They set off from Tapachula in the state of Chiapas. The city is located not far from the border with Guatemala.
At the front of the procession, participants carried a white cross and a banner demanding humanitarian visas. They complained that it took months to process their applications in Tapachula and that they were not allowed to work. According to media reports, Irineo Mújica from the organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) criticized that it was irresponsible on the part of the Mexican government to want to detain the people in Tapachula. Many migrants lived on the streets.
Mexico is on the migration route of people trying to reach the United States. They are fleeing poverty, violence and political crises in their home countries. For several years now, migrants in the region have been increasingly forming groups or caravans to protect themselves from violence and deportation, but these often break up again after a while.
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