▲ The migrants left Tapachula on October 1, and arrived yesterday in the municipality of Pijijiapan.Photo Afp
Edgar H. Clemente
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 10, 2025, p. 16
Tapachula, Chis., The migrant caravan For Freedom has traveled 150 kilometers in nine days, since leaving the border with Guatemala on October 1, seeking to advance towards Mexico City.
The exodus arrived this Thursday in the municipality of Pijijiapan, on the coast of Chiapas, from Tapachula, a journey that would take two hours by car.
“We are very tired, especially the women and children, but we are going to continue. Immigration has not offered us anything other than to return to Tapachula, but we are not going back, we are going forward,” Cuban Nely González said by telephone. He added that during the journey they receive little humanitarian assistance, and with their own means they pay for food and water.
Nely assured that agents from the National Guard and the National Immigration Institute (INM) launched an operation to arrest members of the caravan who separated from the contingent.
“They want to dissolve the caravan, but here we are still more than a thousand people; we will be more united. Our objective is Mexico City, we are not going to give up,” he added.
The migrants reiterated their request to President Claudia Sheinbaum to provide them with a document that allows them free transit to the center or north of the country, where they intend to find better job opportunities while they continue with the processes to obtain legal stay in Mexico.
Unlike previous marches, foreigners are not seeking to reach the United States for now due to President Donald Trump’s toughening policies.
The migrants left Tapachula, the main city on the southern border, last week in response to the extremely precarious conditions they suffer due to lack of employment and very low salaries. Furthermore, foreigners complain that the Mexican Refugee Aid Commission takes up to more than a year to respond to their requests.
