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3,000 migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

Story by EDGAR H. CLEMENTE, Associated Press
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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, México (AP) — About 3,000 migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border.

Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November, because they fear that if Donald Trump wins he will follow through on a promise to close the border to asylum-seekers.

“We are running the risk that permits (to cross the border) might be blocked,” said Miguel Salazar, a migrant from El Salvador. He feared that a new Trump administration might stop granting appointments to migrants through CBP One, an app used by asylum seekers to enter the U.S. legally — by getting appointments at U.S. border posts, where they make their cases to officials.


Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

The app only works once migrants reach Mexico City, or states in northern Mexico.

“Everyone wants to use that route” said Salazar, 37.

The group left Sunday from the southern Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, which is next to a river that marks Mexico’s border with Guatemala.


A migrant walks along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

Some said they had been waiting in Ciudad Hidalgo for weeks, for permits to travel to towns further to the north.
Migrants trying to pass through Mexico in recent years have organized large groups to try to reduce the risk of being attacked by gangs or stopped by Mexican immigration officials as they travel. But the caravans tend to break up in southern Mexico, as people get tired of walking for hundreds of miles.

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Recently, Mexico has also made it more difficult for migrants to reach the U.S. border on buses and trains.
Travel permits are rarely awarded to migrants who enter the country without visas and thousands of migrants have been detained by immigration officers at checkpoints in the center and north of Mexico, and bused back to towns deep in the south of the country.


Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

Oswaldo Reyna a 55-year-old Cuban migrant crossed from Guatemala into Mexico 45 days ago, and waited in Ciudad Hidalgo to join the new caravan announced on social media.

He criticized Trump's recent comments about migrants and how they are trying to “invade” the United States.
“We are not delinquents” he said. “We are hard working people who have left our country to get ahead in life, because in our homeland we are suffering from many needs.”


Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, México (AP) — About 3,000 migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border.

Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November, because they fear that if Donald Trump wins he will follow through on a promise to close the border to asylum-seekers.

“We are running the risk that permits (to cross the border) might be blocked,” said Miguel Salazar, a migrant from El Salvador. He feared that a new Trump administration might stop granting appointments to migrants through CBP One, an app used by asylum seekers to enter the U.S. legally — by getting appointments at U.S. border posts, where they make their cases to officials.


Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

The app only works once migrants reach Mexico City, or states in northern Mexico.

“Everyone wants to use that route” said Salazar, 37.

The group left Sunday from the southern Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, which is next to a river that marks Mexico’s border with Guatemala.


A migrant walks along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

Some said they had been waiting in Ciudad Hidalgo for weeks, for permits to travel to towns further to the north.
Migrants trying to pass through Mexico in recent years have organized large groups to try to reduce the risk of being attacked by gangs or stopped by Mexican immigration officials as they travel. But the caravans tend to break up in southern Mexico, as people get tired of walking for hundreds of miles.

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Recently, Mexico has also made it more difficult for migrants to reach the U.S. border on buses and trains.
Travel permits are rarely awarded to migrants who enter the country without visas and thousands of migrants have been detained by immigration officers at checkpoints in the center and north of Mexico, and bused back to towns deep in the south of the country.


Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)© Provided by The Associated Press

Oswaldo Reyna a 55-year-old Cuban migrant crossed from Guatemala into Mexico 45 days ago, and waited in Ciudad Hidalgo to join the new caravan announced on social media.

He criticized Trump's recent comments about migrants and how they are trying to “invade” the United States.
“We are not delinquents” he said. “We are hard working people who have left our country to get ahead in life, because in our homeland we are suffering from many needs.”

3,000 migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border (msn.com)

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Massive new caravan of migrants sets off for the US

Story by Sabrina Penty
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• About 3,000 people are estimated to be making the crossing to the US

About 3,000 people carrying bags, water and small children walked through intense heat along a highway in southern Mexico on Tuesday, as they aim to reach the US border before the November presidential election out of fear that if former President Donald Trump wins, he may close the border.

The major migrant caravan set off just on Sunday just hours after news broke that Joe Biden had dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House.

The group left from the southern Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, next to the Suchiate River that borders Guatemala, encouraged by a call to join a caravan that began to spread on social media a couple of weeks earlier.

'Whoever is (in charge of the U.S. government), we will continue the fight to be there,' said Leivi Galvna, a migrant from Honduras. 'We have to fight for our dream.'

As they walked, the group shouted phrases like 'yes we can,' while pushing worn-out strollers.


Hundreds of migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, set out in a US-bound caravan to escape poverty and violence, on the outskirts of Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico, on Tuesday© Provided by Daily Mail


Tapachula, near the country's southern border with Guatemala, sees hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants passing through each year after they cross the Guatemalan-Mexican border heading towards the United States to escape poverty and violence© Provided by Daily Mail


A migrant walks on an US-bound caravan on the outskirts of Tapachula© Provided by Daily Mail

Between 2,300 and 3,000 migrants including families make up the latest caravan, according to the Security ministry in Chiapas, Mexico’s southern-most state.

Most are believed to be Venezuelans.

While some migrants said they weren't aware of Biden's announcement, many said they feared that if Trump was elected their situation would become more complicated.

'All of us here are hard-working human beings, we're fighters,' said Laydi Sierra, a Venezuelan migrant traveling with dozens of family members.

She said she has not been following the US campaign, but wishes that Trump loses 'because he wants nothing to do with migrants.'


A member of the National Guard escorts migrants walking on an US-bound caravan on the outskirts of Tapachula© Provided by Daily Mail


The major migrant caravan is hoping to reach the southern frontier before the November election out of fear that if former President Donald Trump wins, he may close the border© Provided by Daily Mail


Migrants of different nationalities walk along a road in a caravan toward the US© Provided by Daily Mail


As they walked, the group shouted phrases like 'yes we can'© Provided by Daily Mail


Migrants of different nationalities take a break while travelling in a caravan toward the US. Woman can be seen pushing young children in worn-out strollers© Provided by Daily Mail

Some said they had been waiting in the city for weeks, for permits to travel to towns further to the north.
Among them was Oswaldo Reyna, a 55-year-old Cuban migrant who crossed from Guatemala into Mexico 45 days ago, and waited in Ciudad Hidalgo to join the new caravan - which was announced on social media.

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He criticized Trump's recent comments about migrants and how they are trying to 'invade' the United States.
'We are not delinquents' he said. 'We are hard working people who have left our country to get ahead in life, because in our homeland we are suffering from many needs.'

Just last week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump returned to his familiar talking points in a speech in which he decried immigrants as 'murderers'.


The group left Sunday from the southern Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, next to the Suchiate River that borders Guatemala© Provided by Daily Mail



The formation of the new caravan comes at the heels of President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 race for the White House© Provided by Daily Mail



While some migrants said they weren't aware of Biden's announcement, many said they feared that if Trump was elected their situation would become more complicated© Provided by Daily Mail



Migrants stand in line in Tapachula, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico on Monday© Provided by Daily Mail

Under his presidency from 2017 to 2021, Trump began the expansion of the Mexico-US barrier, commonly referred to as 'The Wall', aimed at preventing illegal crossings from Mexico into the US.

While Biden's administration cancelled border wall projects, in 2022 it announced that it would fill four wide gaps in Arizona near Yuma, an area with some of the highest influx of illegal crossings.

Ahead of this year's election, Trump has pledged to 'immediately stop the invasion of our southern border' and end illegal immigration.

As part of that plan, he says he would immediately direct US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to undertake the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. He also wants to build more of the border wall.

But thousands of migrants continue to take a shot at seeking asylum in the United States with the hope of leaving behind insecurity, poverty and other problems in their home countries.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the US has grown from 10.2 million in 2019 to 11.0 million in 2022.

In December 2023, migrant encounters at the Mexico-US border hit a record high, with 250,000 migrants trying to cross the border, Customs and Border Protection said.

Almost daily, dozens of people leave the Mexican city of Tapachula, considered the primary access point to Mexico's southern border.


A man carries his son along a road, as migrants of different nationalities walk towards the US in a caravan© Provided by Daily Mail


Caravans have been a means for tens of thousands of migrants to cross Mexico, often as a safety measure amid reports that robberies, rapes and kidnappings of migrants are common.© Provided by Daily Mail

But recent years, caravans have been a means for tens of thousands of migrants to cross Mexico, often as a safety measure amid reports that robberies, rapes and kidnappings of migrants are common.

These groups are sometimes led by activists, but also by the migrants themselves who get tired of waiting for any kind of legal documents to allow them to move inside Mexico.

The current caravan's exact route is unknown, but historically, migrants crossing the Mexico-US border have started at Tapachula near the Guatemalan border. They then cross Mexico City and finish in Tijuana, a border city just south of California. This route is over 2,600 miles.

The caravans are often a lifeline for those who cannot afford to pay a smuggler or human trafficker for a 'safer' journey.

'I travel more safely in a caravan, I don't want to be killed in Mexico,' said Yoisy, a Venezuelan migrant who tired of waiting for an appointment through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP One platform to apply for asylum.


The current caravan's exact route is unknown, but historically, migrants crossing the Mexico-US border have started at Tapachula near the Guatemalan border and end in Tijuana, next to the border with California© Provided by Daily Mail



The number of migrants crossing the US border hrew between 2019 and 2022© Provided by Daily Mail

But the caravans tend to break up in southern Mexico, as people get tired of walking for hundreds of miles.
Recently, Mexico has also made it more difficult for migrants to reach the US border on buses and trains.

Jose Maria Garcia, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, said he did not know to which border town the caravans were headed, but said the uncertain outcome of the upcoming US elections could be a motivating catalyst.

'The migrant community is very confused,' he said, of how migrants view the future of U.S. immigration policy.

Last month, a new report from the Inspector General admitted that the Department of Homeland Security needs a complete overhaul on how it vets immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to address national security concerns.


Under his presidency from 2017 to 2021, Trump began the expansion of the Mexico-US barrier, commonly referred to as ' The Wall', aimed at preventing illegal crossings from Mexico into the US. Ahead of this year's election, Trump has pledged to 'immediately stop the invasion of our southern border' and end illegal immigration© Provided by Daily Mail


Trump visits the 450th mile of the new border wall and speaks with US Border and Customs officials and officers in 2021, near the Texas Mexico border© Provided by Daily Mail


The Biden administration has been criticised for its failure to implement policies that would quell the number of migrant crossing every day© Provided by Daily Mail

A redacted version of the report claimed failures in the system are making it easier for 'dangerous' non-citizens to get into the country.

The report completely obliterated President Joe Biden's policies toward immigration and migration while claiming agents protecting the nation's borders are not given the appropriate tools to vet asylum seekers.

It came amid a raging illegal immigration crisis at the southern border and a failure by the Biden administration to implement policies that would quell the number of migrant crossing every day.

In June, after three-and-a-half-years of pressure from Republicans – Biden announced an executive order that would cap the number of asylum seekers at the border when it reaches 2,500 per day.


A migrant child covers her face while kneeling near a butterfly painted with the U.S. flag on its wings, before continuing a caravan towards the U.S. border, in Tapachula on Monday© Provided by Daily Mail


A nurse assists a migrant from Venezuela who fell ill, before continuing in a caravan towards the US on Monday© Provided by Daily Mail

Massive new caravan of migrants sets off for the US (msn.com)

From the article:

Hundreds of migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, set out in a US-bound caravan to escape poverty and violence, on the outskirts of Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico, on Tuesday

They use this language "to escape poverty and violence" to pull on your heart and try and chastise you if you don't feel compassionate toward these people ... But, that is manipulative and as we here at Alipac know, it is NOT true about the illegals flooding our country.

So sad and we need to read these reports critically

They can fight for their "dream" back home.

No vacancy.

We have our own poverty and violence.

GO HOME!