A caravan of hundreds of migrants departed on Tuesday from the city of Tapachula, at the southern border of Mexico, after the undocumented individuals were unable to resolve their regularization procedures.
Despite the recent meeting between the presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, migrants ensure that the situation in that border area is unsustainable and therefore they would undertake a journey to Mexico City, cited the EFE agency.
The group is mostly made up of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Central America, Brazil, and Colombia.
They set out walking from Tapachula, equipped with strollers and backpacks, as indicated in the report.
Alexander, a Cuban migrant, explained that they are walking because they are not allowed to board buses to reach Mexico City, where they hope to schedule CBP One appointments to cross to the United States.
The authorities instructed the group to walk gently on the right side of the road.
Some migrants joined the caravan at the Viva México ejido, about seven kilometers from Tapachula, tired of waiting and dissatisfied with the National Institute of Migration (INM) service.
Mexico has recorded a record influx of migrants at the southern border. In 2023, there was a 77% increase in irregular migrants, and in the first quarter of 2024, the figure grew by almost 200%, reaching nearly 360,000 people.
It is expected that on May 31st, a new group will gather in Tecún Umán, Guatemala, to continue heading north.
In the midst of that bottleneck that threatens to create a new humanitarian crisis in southern Mexico, the United States recognized this Wednesday that the CBP One application system for migrants to process their asylum appointments has had failures, and as a result thousands of people have been stranded in Mexican territory for more than seven months.
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