A caravan with about 7,000 migrants, mostly from Cuba, Haiti and Honduras, among other countries, left on Sunday, Christmas Eve, from Tapachula, in southern Mexico, heading to the north of the country.
As indicatedBBC News Many of the migrants have said that they joined the caravan after waiting months to obtain transit permits granted by the National Migration Institute (INM) and the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR).
Foreigners carrying blankets with the Mexican flag and the motto "Escape from poverty" on the front, took the Chiapas Coastal Highway on the 24th to head north from the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, a place that marked the exit.
The route is being carried out by complete families and individuals, women with their children, young men and adolescents.
A special connotation of this new caravan is that “it occurs a few days before the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, meets with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to discuss how to stop mass migration,” he noted.BBC.
US immigration authorities have recently closed border crossings unilaterally due to the surge of immigrants.
As reportedThe country, “between the last week of November and the first week of December, the number of migrants detained at border crossings with the US grew by 31%, going from 53,016 to 69,462 arrests, according to figures from the US Border Patrol (CBP, for its acronym in English).”
These numbers represent an increase in the number of people detained at the southern border of the United States in both fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Several Mexican media alert drivers of the transit of this caravan, so that they take precautions.
Days ago it was learned that the president of the United StatesJoe Biden works more actively in the negotiations that are carried out in the country's Congress toapprove reforms to immigration policy.
Biden has shown a willingness to make “significant concessions on the [US-Mexico] border” because he hopes the changes, demanded by the Republican faction of the Senate, will be approved in favor ofmoney for Washington's allies who are in military conflict: Ukraine and Israel, according to an analysis ofAP.
Biden's willingness to make concessions to obtain the funds he needs to support his allies in the war is matched by Republicans' interest instop the entry of migrants to US soil.
“Republicans say record numbers of migrants crossing southern border pose security threat because the authorities cannot adequately examine all immigrants and that those who enter the United States are depleting the country's resources," he said.AP.
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