HUEHUETAN, Mexico (EFE) — A new caravan made up of some 6,000 migrants, mostly from Central American countries and Haiti, resumed its slow march through the southern Mexico state of Chiapas on Sunday under the strict surveillance of immigration officers and the National Guard.
On their second day of travel, still very close to the border with Guatemala, the caravan sought to cover about 15 kilometers, the distance they traveled on Saturday, and remained firm in their intention to reach Mexico City, and later the United States.
After spending the night and resting in the community of Álvaro Obregón, in the city of Tapachula, on Sunday at 8 am (13:00 GMT) the group headed for the highway towards the municipality of Huehuetán.
Thousands of immigrants in #Mexico started to march from the city of #Tapachula to go to the #US. pic.twitter.com/wjXzwBJbTP
— gdh international (@gdhint) October 24, 2021
ON THE MOVE… the Migrant Caravan on the move for the 2nd day en route to the US @FoxNews #BorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/wmnmuWmLMg
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) October 24, 2021
After exiting the state of Chiapas, which will take several days, they aim to reach the Mexican capital to regularize their situation before the National Institute of Migration (NIM).
Under the surveillance of official vehicles in the front and rear, the caravan walked the first kilometers of a journey of about 1,160 km to Mexico City.
“This march is for freedom. We go with God – he is the one who is guiding us, and we have the idea of reaching the United States,” Cuban Pablo Iván Cifrian told Efe, adding that he does not mind walking “ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred or one thousand kilometers.”
He said that to reach their goal they are “willing to break down barriers and everything that lies ahead.”
Honduran Kari Pineda said that she joined the caravan to escape the poverty, insecurity and corruption in her country and to search for better opportunities.
“We hope to go to the United States to work and give our children a better future,” she said.
In the US, Pineda wants to earn money to build a house for her children. The one she had was destroyed last year by hurricanes.
Meanwhile, Denis, a Cuban traveling with his wife, said that they both have passports but joined the caravan to reach Mexico City and begin their legal stay in the country.
Most of the travelers denounce a lack of attention from the Mexican authorities to comply with procedures in the country and some, after more than a year in Chiapas, hit the road in response to the containment policy that the government has deployed in Tapachula on the Guatemalan border.
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The NGO Pueblo Sin Fronteras denounced “the conversion of Tapachula, Chiapas, into a prison city.”
In a statement, the organization said that “tens of thousands of migrants have been trapped in this city, which lacks the resources or the political will to meet their needs and guarantee their human rights.”
“The anti-immigrant prison walls of Tapachula must be torn down – it is just and it is necessary.”
The caravan seeks to advance at the same slow pace and wait for women and children to prevent them from being left behind or detained.
The group was launched after the Mexican authorities thwarted the advance of four migrant caravans that also left Tapachula in early September.
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At that time, several United Nations agencies and NGOs criticized the use of force in the operations to disperse the caravans.
The region has experienced an unprecedented migration wave since the beginning of the year, with a record 147,000 undocumented immigrants detected in Mexico from January to August, triple that of 2020.
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Oh Joe Dementia, you are the greatest President of all time, when it comes to the total destruction of the United States. I suggest you have two Vice Presidents, two communists with the names of Jimmy Carter and Barack!
Destruction of the nation, IS THEIR goal… unfortunately.
This corrupt, parrot, puppet president and the Democrat controlled Congress are violating our U.S. Constitution and our Laws.
Article 4, section 4 of the U.S. Constitution: The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Thousands illegal immigrants invading our borders each month. If This isn’t a foreign invasion, then what is it?
Who do you think benefits from these illegal immigrants?? The socialist Democrat Party encourages, allows entry, transports, supports and protects these uneducated, disease ridden, unvaccinated illegal immigrants…. Now ask yourself WHY??
apparently no body cares enough about it to stop it scruff.
Unfortunate that seems MORE and more true….
May as well just let ’em in. After they trash our country into oblivion, they’ll leave, leave us to clean it up till the next bunch of crazies come along. Is this our play book, really?
SCREW LETTING THEM IN… I am sick to death of it.
“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
We are most obviously being invaded, aided and abetted by the Biden Administration and the Pelosi Congress. WE THE PEOPLE under strict obedience of the Constitution Article 10, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and thanks to the BIden Bussing to the interior, any other state that feels offended has every right to engage in war with the foreign invaders on the border, and any Mexican coyotes or drug importers WITHOUT PREDJUDICE. Just what kind of a fool allows foreigners to declare war upon THE PEOPLE, without responding in kind? Just who can now deny the imminent danger that if the response is delayed, will end up turning the USA into the same 3rd world nation from where these invaders come from.
Socialist Lenin encouraged the Germans to invade Russia and the Germans assisted him in his travels back to Russia where he openly encouraged the Russians to lose WWI to facilitate deposing the Czar creating as much social dissention and confusion as possible to aid the Bolshevik takeover. He first took over the police, newspapers and the Railroad depots. Democrats are using the same old game plan to take America down, then they take over completely.
History repeating itself.
I don’t see any action against these invaders, so embrace them America, and kiss our country good-bye.
MORE AND MORE we need to treat this as what it is, A FLAT OUT INVASION OF OUR NATION, and treat it accordingly, WITH LETHAL FORCE!
Never mind us American citizens, Joe—just get 6,000 more illegals in to make it harder on us and to pad the Democrat base.
Get Baldwin’s prop gun and all others like this and let Alec have at. Maybe we can a bunch of alec’s with prop guns to defend our borders.
Last night’s NCIS LA show, had a group of patriots, who WANT TO DEFEND OUR border, trying to buy AK-47’s, to go do so, but they were treated as ‘right wing extremists, who need to be stopped…
IMO EVERY PATRIOT SHOULD BE armed and do what is needed to protect our border… BEFORE OUR NATION IS NO MORE!
Why waste your time watching anything on NBC, CBS, or ABC?
I still like NCIS, NCIS LA, Blue bloods and CSI… Oh, and that new show, Lebrea…
However, the past few seasons, its has seemed of those shows, NCIS LA, is the MOST WOKE of them all….. and its getting to where i am having a hard time, stomaching its overt libtardness, and anti ANYTHING Right wing..