Caravan with thousands of migrants advances through Mexico on the eve of Blinken’s visit

A caravan of over 6,000 migrants and around twenty nationalities advance from the southern border of the Mexico this Tuesday, on the eve of the visit of a North American delegation led by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkento face the increase in migration with the Mexican government.

This group, which left in Goodnight with almost 10 thousand people, the largest of the year, left the municipality of Huixtla this Tuesday until arriving at customs in the south of the state of Chiapaswhere they knelt to pray.

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Undocumented immigrants asked officials at the U.S and the president of the Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorlet them tempt your hearts to enable your progress.

Migrants walk in a caravan to reach the northern border, in the municipality of Huixtla, in Chiapas, Mexico, on December 26, 2023. (Photo by Juan Manuel Blanco/EFE)

Pink, originally from The Saviorwhere she was a maid before leaving the country due to lack of work, so now she intends to come to the United States to improve her quality of life, but she has encountered the obstacles of National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico.

“There are many checkpoints and they deport us“, he told EFE.

“We ask for documents so we can get to the northern border, as there are many mothers who are heading towards the American dream. In our places, sometimes there is not enough economy and employment, so we have to come to a conclusion Mexico cross to the other side“, said.

An exodus and an international crisis

The caravan advances while López Obrador awaits this Wednesday the urgent visit of a delegation of USA formed by Blinken; the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro MayorkasIt is Elizabeth Sherwood RandallWhite House National Security Advisor.

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“We will have a meeting on Wednesday with a commission that comes from the United States. We invite you to discuss the issue of immigration”, noted the Mexican president in his morning conference this Tuesday.

In December of this year, historic numbers of people trying to enter the United States were recorded at the border with Mexico, where the Protection of United States Customs and Borders (CBP, in English) confirmed this Tuesday the arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants from January to November 2023.

Immigration policy questioned

In this context, the director of Center for Human Dignity (CDH), Luis Rey García Villagranaccompanying the caravan, questioned the meeting between Mexico and the United States due to the rejection of migrants.

“Mexico meets to ask the United States for money and will give it to fight the poorest, who Andrés Manuel López Obrador (said) would defend“, the activist told EFE.

“They criminalized women, children and criminalized the defense of human rights in Mexico” he added.

Despite López Obrador’s opening speech, the Venezuelan migrant Nery Jesus Menzana highlighted that the Government of Mexico is not convinced of helping the migration.

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Therefore, he asked both Governments, before stopping them or coming together to control the migratory flow, to cooperate to improve the conditions of their people so that their citizens do not migrate.

“If people migrate, it is because the Government lacks something to satisfy these people’s needs, to migrate in search of a new hope of life. And if you meet with a country, to deny migration to its people, it is better to meet with your Government so that you can lend (resources) to the people so that they do not migrate.”, he opined.

Until this Tuesday afternoon, the caravan was in the municipality of Villa Comaltitlánwhere they would rest until leaving this Wednesday for Escuintla.

Source: Elcomercio