The caravan of migrants returns to form in Mexico, members promise to reach the United States
The caravan of migrants returns to form in Mexico, members promise to reach the United States
Despite the efforts of Mexicans to stop them at the border, some 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted a river that separates that country from Guatemala, once again forming their caravan of masses in Mexico And he swore to resume his trip to the United States.
The migrants, who said they abandoned the attempt to enter Mexico legally because the asylum application process was too slow, met on Saturday in a park in the border city of Ciudad Hidalgo. They voted by free hand to continue towards the north in mass, soon they marched towards the bridge that crosses the Suchiate river and they urged to those who still surround it to be united to them.
"We are going to arrive in the United States," said Erasmo Duarte, a migrant from Danli, Honduras, despite warnings that this week the president of the US UU Donald Trump, which has tried to convert the caravan and border security in general into a campaign issue a little over two weeks before the mid-term choices.
The decision to re-form the migrant caravan culminated in a day in which Mexican authorities again rejected the massive influx of migrants on the bridge, instead of accepting small groups for the processing of asylum and granting them permits for 45-day visitors. some of them. The authorities handed out numbers for people to be processed in a strategy that has been seen before at border crossings in the US. UU When dealing with a large number of migrants.
But many were impatient and, bypassing the front door, swarmed across the river in rafts, swimming or wade in full view of the hundreds of Mexican police who were in the blockade of the bridge. Some paid the locals the equivalent of $ 1.25 to transport them through the murky waters. They were not arrested upon arrival at the Mexican bank.
"We could not wait because we had waited too long and they only told us lies," said Duarte, who joined the caravan with his wife and children six days ago.
Sairy Bueso, a 24-year-old Honduran woman and mother of two children, was another migrant who left the bridge and crossed into Mexico through the river. He grabbed his 2-year-old daughter Dayani, who had recently had a heart operation while getting off a raft.
"The girl suffered a lot because of all the people who were crowded" on the bridge, Bueso said. "There are risks we must take for the good of our children."
The leaders of the group said that the caravan, which will be smaller than the original one, would leave on Sunday morning towards the city of Tapachula.
Where there were easily 3,000 people on the bridge the day before, the crowd had shrunk considerably on Saturday. In addition to those who crossed the river, immigration the agents processed the migrants in small groups and then took them to an open air exhibition center with a metal roof in Tapachula, where the Red Cross installed small blue tents on the concrete floor.
Each time a small side door was opened to allow people to pass through for processing, there was an agglomeration of bodies as the migrants advanced desperately.
Scarleth Cruz lifted a weeping, sweat-soaked girl over the crowd, shouting, "This girl is choking."
Cruz, 20, said he would seek political asylum due to the threats and repression he faced in Honduras from President Juan Orlando Hernandez's government party.
"Why would I want to go to the United States if I am also going to be persecuted?" He said.
The Department of the Interior of Mexico said in a statement that it had received 640 requests for refugees from Hondurans at the border crossing. He published photos of migrants who got off buses at a shelter and received food and medical attention.
At least half a dozen migrants fainted.
Some opened a fence on the Guatemala side of the bridge and threw two small children, perhaps 6 or 7 years old, and their mother into murky waters about 40 feet deep. They were taken to the security of the Mexican bank.
Mexican workers delivered bottled water to migrants on the bridge. Through the bars, a doctor gave medical attention to a woman who feared that her young son had a fever.
The sustenance also came from the Guatemalan population; for Carlos Martinez, a 24-year-old from Santa Bárbara, Honduras, the chicken dish with rice was the first bite he ate all day.
"It's a blessing that they gave us food," Martinez said. "It gives me the courage to keep waiting, while I can".
The migrants mentioned widespread poverty and gang violence in Honduras, one of the deadliest nations in the world by homicide rate, as their reasons for joining the caravan.
"You can not live there," said Fidelina Vásquez, a grandmother who was traveling with her daughter and her 2-year-old grandson, standing by the front gate of the border.
The caravan triggered a series of angry tweets and warnings from Trump earlier in the week, but the senseless handling of migrants by Mexico on the southern border seems to have satisfied him most recently.
"As of this moment, I thank Mexico," Trump said Friday at an event in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I hope they continue, but from this moment on, I thank Mexico, if that does not work, we are calling the military, not the Guard."
"They do not come to this country," Trump added.
"The Mexican government is fully committed to finding a solution that encourages safe and orderly migration," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday, "and both the United States and Mexico continue to work with Central American governments to address the problem. economic, Security, and governors of illegal immigration. "
After an emergency meeting in Guatemala, Presidents Hernandez of Honduras and Jimmy Morales of Guatemala said that an estimated 5,400 migrants entered Guatemala since the caravan was announced a week ago, and approximately 2,000 Hondurans have returned voluntarily.
Morales said a Honduran migrant died in the city of Villa Nueva, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Guatemala City, when he fell off a truck.
Some Hondurans were tired from the trip and disappointed by the violence at the crossing, and only wanted to return home.
"We thought the caravan was passive, but there were ungovernable people, it disappointed me," said Gonzalo Martinez, a 37-year-old farmer, as he boarded a bus in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, to take him back to Honduras.
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Mark Stevenson reported from Ciudad Hidalgo, and Sonia Pérez D. reported from Tecun Uman, Guatemala. Associated Press writers, Sonny Figueroa in Guatemala City and Peter Orsi in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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