Mexican authorities prevented a caravan of about 100 migrants from Central America—who were hoping to reach the U.S.—from crossing the border yesterday, Tuesday, just a few days after another group managed to enter the country.
The National Guard, immigration authorities, and the Chiapas state police deployed patrols at various points along the road to prevent the migrants from continuing their journey after they crossed the Suchia Riverat the Guatemala-Mexico border, according to footage broadcast by the Mexican press.
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The Central American migrants tried to flee by running, but they were surrounded. About forty of them were taken into custody, according to reports from Tapachula, the first city after the border with Guatemala.
Mexican immigration authorities did not immediately respond when the French Press Agency attempted to contact them to request confirmation of the arrests.
On Sunday evening, another caravan of about 1,000 migrants crossed the border without encountering any resistance.
It stopped in Tapachula for a brief rest before resuming its journey toward the U.S. border, at the other end of Mexican territory—even though it is effectively cut off.
The Republican Party, currently in power in the U.S., lost its majority in Congress last week and also suffered defeats in gubernatorial races in key states, such as Texas. The policy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration—which calls for a complete halt to the admission of immigrants at the southern border and the crackdown on undocumented immigrants across the country, has been heavily criticized and is believed to have cost him the support of the majority of voters of Latin American descent.
This is the fourth caravan of migrants dreaming of a better tomorrow in the U.S. to have set out from Central America since September.
Two previous caravans, which were joined by dozens of nationals from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, did not travel more than about 250 kilometers into Mexican territory after crossing the border.
They ended up being dispersed by Mexican immigration authorities before they even left the administrative boundaries of the state of Chiapas; however, the authorities did issue temporary residence permits to some of their members.
Caravans of undocumented migrants relentlessly attempted to reach the U.S. during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House and also during that of his Democratic successor, presidency of Joe Biden.
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Source: APE-MPE
