& # 039; If God permits it: migrants in caravans push towards the US. UU
& # 039; If God permits it: migrants in caravans push towards the US. UU
HUIXTLA, Mexico. A caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran immigrants collapsed in makeshift tents in this southern Mexican city and left before dawn on Wednesday on their long trip to the US. UU., While thousands of their compatriots made their way through Guatemala with the same objective.
Migrants are part of an increase in migration from Honduras in recent weeks as an increasing number of people join multiple caravans that allow them to travel safely together and avoid paying traffickers' fees.
Caravans have become a hot political issue in the United States before next month's midterm elections, as President Trump calls them a national emergency and try to dismiss the Democrats as weak in border security.
The Huixtla group initially departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 12, and marched some 500 miles to the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico, an average of about 40 miles per day, both on foot and by car. trucks and cars. Its nearest entry point, McAllen, Texas, 1,000 miles away, would take about three more weeks to reach the current rate.
President Trump said that the USA. UU They will put an end to Central American aid while thousands of migrants march to the US border. UU Gerald F. Seib of the WSJ explains why this could be counterproductive. Stock Photo: Getty
The estimates vary widely on the number of people who entered Guatemala en route to the United States. Father Mauro Verzeletti, director of a shelter administered by Scalabrinian missionaries in Guatemala City, where 200 people slept on Tuesday night, said there are 11,500 immigrants. Others say there is less.
Some 1,700 migrants have filed asylum claims, the Mexican government said on Tuesday.
Father Verzeletti said migrants traveled in large and small groups, many of them now through the thick Petén jungle in Guatemala, which said they are not protected by security and migration agents from Mexico and Guatemala.
That route leads to a migrant shelter in Tenosique, a city in the Mexican state of Tabasco, which now houses more than twice its 200-person capacity, an international migration worker said.
"This is a massive phenomenon. It is unprecedented in the history of Central America, "said Father Verzeletti.
Meanwhile, in Huixtla, the caravan of what the mayor of the city said were 6,000 people who left after resting one day from their exhausting trip in search of a better life.
A long line of people, from young men to grandmothers and families pushing baby strollers or carrying small children, walked like silent ghosts on the road to the north. At the stops along the road, the local church and volunteer groups lined the road and distributed everything from water and bananas to clothing.
Alejandro Garcia, 22, a fruit vendor from the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, took his daughter, Eilly, 1 year old, in a handbag while trying to take a walk. Garcia said he left home because extortion payments to the gangs ruined his livelihood and headed to the United States through the Mexican border city of Tijuana.
"If God allows it," said Mr. Garcia.
At noon, hundreds of people from the Huixtla group arrived in the city of Mapastepec, 40 miles away, where they planned to sleep at night. Exhausted, they slept in the town square and where they could find shade from the roasted sun.
Some of the migrants plan to apply for asylum. Others, doubting their possibilities, plan to enter the United States illegally. If they do not succeed, some said they would try to stay in Mexico.
"Honduras is going to lose all its people, they all go to the United States," said Dyana Avila, 24, an unemployed San Pedro Sula saleswoman who was traveling with her 52-year-old father.
"We hope God will make Trump change his mind, and let us in," he said.
The long and arduous journey ended early for some 200 Hondurans, many of them families or mothers with small children, who left the caravan in Huixtla to return home.
"The girls can not take it anymore," said Oscar Rivera, 27, a farmer, gesturing to his two sleeping daughters on the sidewalk in front of the local mayor's office, eight and seven years old. He said he expected a better life in the United States. "There's nothing in Honduras," he said.
Inside the caravan there were three artists from Tegucigalpa, the United Laughter Clowns. "We are encouraging the children," said Kimberly Olivares, one of the three people in the company. "There is no work in Honduras, the gangs control everything," he said, adding that if they did not arrive in the United States, he felt they could find work in Mexico City.
Write to José de Córdoba in jose.decordoba@wsj.com and Santiago Pérez in santiago.perez@wsj.com
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