This past weekend, a fresh caravan of about a thousand migrants left Mexico’s southern border in an attempt to reach Mexico City. It is anticipated that the gang will split up and use different routes to get to the US border from there. Since the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s new president on October 1, there have been two caravans to arrive in Mexico.
The caravan, officially known as “God is Guiding Us,” set out early on Sunday morning in Tapachula, Chiapas. About 1,000 migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica, and a small number from Afghanistan and Nepal make up the caravan. The group’s ultimate destination is the border with the United States, and they intend to travel through Mexico City.
The caravan’s members are legal residents of Mexico, and they were waiting in Chiapas for an appointment to submit their CBP One application on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration. The group’s organizers, though, became weary of the lengthy waits.
Jonathan Rojas claims that the group is afraid of the rhetoric used by former US President Donald J. Trump, who threatened to stop the country’s current immigration route. According to Rojas, he was traveling for financial reasons because there weren’t many prospects in his home country of Colombia.
According to Rojas, “there is genuine fear that they will close the border if he (Trump) wins. We have to stop waiting for them to schedule a meeting. The environment is unhealthy, there are too many of us, and there is not enough room or supply in Chiapas. The Mexican government must assist us.”
The migrants in the caravan reportedly complained about a lack of medical attention and food shortages in Chiapas, according to Venezuela’s La Verdad. The article also mentioned how the migrants’ need for money was what motivated them to travel to the United States.
