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Cubans in Tapachula announce caravan to leave en masse to the southern border of the United States

Thousands of Cubans wait in Tapachula for the Mexican authorities to issue immigration permits that will allow them to continue their trip to the United States.

Crisis migratoria en Tapachula © Diario Del Sur / Captura de video
Migration crisis in Tapachula Photo © Diario Del Sur / Video capture

After several days of crisis and without receiving a response to their complaints, thousands of Cubans stranded in Tapachula announced a caravan to leave for the southern border of the United States.

The Cubans announced that they will leave on Monday morning in a caravan of six thousand people, with Venezuelans, Haitians and Hondurans who will join the group.

The decision was made after the authorities of the National Immigration Institute of Mexico refused to respond to their request to issue a document that allows them to continue their trip to the US border, in the north of the country.

Likewise, after Mexico suspended flight permits to the border for Cubans with appointments forCBP One, an application through which they obtained interviews to request political asylum.

Two migrants interviewed by the local media Diario del Sur, which has done rigorous coverage of the current chaos in Tapachula, stated that they have been in that city in southern Mexico for a long time, with limited resources and without family to support them, paying dearly for everything.

They ask that the INM release immigration documents that authorize them to continue the trip to the United States.

Regarding the caravan, they recognized that it entails risks, such askidnappings, assaults and robberies with violence, in addition to the feared confrontation with the Mexican Army and Police.

One of them, identified as Osnier Quiñones, has been stranded in Tapachula for three months, and said thatMexico suspended flight permits and they are only delivering themselves in Mexico City to attend CBP One appointments, so the group will try to reach the country's capital.

In Tapachula there are approximately 20 thousand Cubans stranded in the midst of a reactivation of the migration crisis on the Caribbean island.

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