Nestor Jimenez
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, October 3, 2022, p. 16
Due to the constant operations of the National Guard in the southeast of the country, migrants who want to enter Mexico have chosen to change the points of entry and have looked for areas in the middle of nature, increasingly dangerous, the Jesuit Service said. Refugees Mexico (SJR).
The group has a record of at least 10 caravans that have been formed this year, some with more than 7,000 people. Karen Pérez, coordinator of the JRS office in Tapachula, Chiapas, considered that the National Migration Institute allows the creation of these groups and then dismantles them and tire out
to travelers. I think it is a very well analyzed strategy, it is almost military
he added.
He explained that foreigners communicate through social networks to warn of Immigration or National Guard checkpoints. This has generated a significant change in the way they are grouped and where they come from. The context has changed and now they enter in small groups, not large ones, due to the constant surveillance
. The modifications also they have caused more risks on the route and on the new routes they are robbed, they take away their documents, they have denounced that the authority itself asks them for payment to be able to enter
.
At the same time, Migration has issued formats of different modalities, and different requirements are established in each caravan.
The situation makes people physically and emotionally exhausted, and they are practically hunting them down. They let them advance and later they hold them back. The fact is that they are going around in circles because the institute issues them these documents to be able to travel, but later they tear up the cards themselves
.
