Edgar H. Clemente
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, January 6, 2025, p. 6
Escuintla, Chis., The National Migration Institute (INM) delivered multiple forms to the members of the first caravan of 2025 when they were resting in the municipality of Escuintla, Chiapas, where they arrived after traveling 75 kilometers in three days from their departure from Tapachula. .
The documents are valid for 20 days, as stated in the agency’s stamps. With it, many migrants looked for the bus terminals and others, very few, continued walking because they indicated that they did not even have enough money for the ticket.
Ecuadorian Martha Quishpi said that with the role she will continue to advance with her two children, a 5-year-old and an 18-year-old teenager, in search of reaching the border with the United States.
She fled due to the violence of organized crime that demanded $2,000 a month from her, an amount that is impossible to obtain in her small hairstylist business.
This is the tenth caravan that has attempted to leave the southern border since last October, just when President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration began, but it was also the seventh since Donald Trump’s victory last November.
In December, three groups left Tapachula, the main border city with Guatemala, and tried to advance, but they were also dissolved by the INM, which gave them buses to transport them to other entities.
Migrants have tried to leave southern Mexico because they say they There are no job opportunities and the regularization procedures can take months
in addition to the fact that they are in a hurry to reach the border with the United States before Trump takes power in two weeks due to the warnings he issued.
