Mexican agents nibble the edges of migrant caravans
Mexican agents nibble the edges of migrant caravans
Thousands of Central American migrants resumed their slow journey south Mexico on Thursday, as immigration Agents and police nibbled the edges of the two caravans that are currently in the country.
Mexican authorities have not directly addressed the main caravan of some 4,000 migrants, and activists who helped that group said they were changing their route to the Gulf Coast, a road closer to the Texas border.
But a smaller second caravan, some 200 miles behind the first group, seemed to be more leaderless, get less press attention and be more vulnerable.
A federal official who was not authorized to be named by name said 153 immigrants in the second caravan were detained on Wednesday during road inspections in the southern state of Chiapas, a short distance from the border with Guatemala. While the exact size of the second caravan is unclear, that could be equivalent to approximately 10 percent of the participants.
And there was also pressure on the first caravan, which left before dawn on Thursday from Juchitán, Oaxaca, to reach the city of Matías Romero, some 40 miles (65 kilometers) ahead.
They tried to organize bus transportation from Juchitán, but they failed, leaving them once again on foot, hitchhiking and looking for trips where they could be found.
But the federal police began to stop the cargo trucks and forced the migrants to retreat, saying that their habit of clinging to the top or sides of the trucks was dangerous.
"Get off! Get off!" Police officer Benjamin Grajeda shouted at a group of migrants clinging to the side of a truck outside Juchitán. "You can travel inside, but not outside."
At other points along the route, the police have forced to pick up overloaded trucks to dismiss the migrants. In previous days, they have ordered passenger vans to stop the transport of migrants.
The migrants have not said which route they intend to take to the north or where they planned to reach the United States border.
While Matías Romero was taking them to the coastal city of the Gulf of Veracruz and a route to the Texas border earlier this year, another large caravan passed through Veracruz and then turned back to Mexico City and finally tried to go to Tijuana in the northwest corner. Few succeeded.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised Mexico on Wednesday for preventing migrants from being taken elsewhere. "Mexico has advanced in an unprecedented way," Sanders told Fox News. "They have helped stop many of the transport The means of these individuals in these caravans, forcing them to walk. "They have helped us in new ways to stop this, to break this and prevent it from moving so aggressively to the United States."
But the president of the United States Donald Trump He increased his pre-election focus on the caravan and others behind it, talking about creating a United States military force on the border that would overtake migrants, many of them women and children.
"As far as the caravan is concerned, our army is out," Trump said. "We have around 5,800, we will go to between 10,000 and 15,000 soldiers on top of the Border Patrol, ICE and everyone else on the border."
Later on Wednesday, Trump told ABC News: "We have to have a wall of people."
A third band of about 500 from El Salvador arrived in Guatemala and a fourth group of about 700 departed from the Salvadoran capital on Wednesday.
In total, the four caravans represent the average flow of migrants to the United States in just a few days in recent years.
Similar caravans have occurred regularly over the years and have gone largely unnoticed, but Trump has focused on the latest protesters seeking to make border security a hot issue in the medium term next week. choices.
Exhausted by days of long walks, many migrants have left and returned to their homes or requested the state of protection in Mexico. The Department of the Interior said on Thursday that the number of migrants who have sought refuge now is nearly 3,000.
The initial caravan has been significantly reduced from its estimated peak of more than 7,000 migrants. A caravan of the last spring finished with almost 200 people who arrived at the border of EE. UU In San Diego.
On Wednesday, a Guatemalan woman gave birth to the first known caravan in a hospital in Juchitán. The National Human Rights Commission of the Mexican government said that it had organized medical care for the woman, who was 28 weeks pregnant, and that the girl was healthy.
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Peter Orsi, writer for The Associated Press in Mexico City, contributed to this report.
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