The hundreds of migrants seeking to pass through national territory explained that it is more difficult to pass through Mexico than through the enormous Darién Jungle.
Hundreds of Central American migrants denounced that the Government of Mexico through the Migration’s national institute (INM), is expelling them to the Guatemalan border in Talismán, with the promise that they will help them with their documents to get to San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca.
Dozens of foreigners who have crossed irregularly into Tapachula protested this Monday, October 10, in the Miguel Hidalgo central park, where they hope to organize en masse to walk or take public transportation to the United States.
Ulises Melquiades, originally from Ecuador, who travels with his family and has been insured by immigration authorities and deported twice to the southern border with Guatemala, told EFE that he will not give up his trip to the United States.
This, he said, will be the third time that he has left Tapachula in search of crossing Mexican territory. “Here in Mexico, the main obstacle is migration that stops us and returns us to Guatemala,” she said.
The Venezuelan Andréi asked the Mexican authorities to give them the permits to be able to transit, because they no longer want to risk walking down the road with children since most of them have fallen ill, after their long journey from South America.
“To go to San Pedro, Tapanatepec we have to go through several checkpoints or immigration checkpoints and if we don’t pay the combis they return us and hand us over to immigration, therefore, we want them to help us with the process here in Tapachula, because to go where they are giving the permits they extort us to get there,” he said.
Difficult passage through Mexico
The hundreds of migrants seeking to pass through national territory explained that it is more difficult to pass through Mexico than through the enormous Darién Jungle.
“One walks and migration grabs us, there are already two occasions that it stops me with my son, women, children, all countries have cooperated with us, the only country that does not let us continue is Mexico,” denounced the Venezuelan Joel Vergara.
Under a light rain caused by Tropical Depression Julia, the migrants gathered under several trees in the Central Park of Tapachula, where they indicated that the migrants from Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba are experiencing the worst crisis due to the dictatorship.
“We don’t want to live in Mexico, but we do kindly appreciate the opportunity to at least travel through Mexico, we are not terrorists, criminals or bad people,” said Nicaraguan Elvin Antonio Guzmán.
They stated that they are willing to pay for safe-conducts or migratory permits to be able to transit or leave Tapachula, since there are many who have been waiting for days to move forward and are immediately returned to the border by bus.
“Mexico is expelling us to the border, it is a way of unfairly detaining us, because we come from Venezuela and we cannot stay to live because we would be another burden for their country, without money and sleeping on the street,” said Esther Mendiola.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has intercepted more than 1.82 million people so far in fiscal year 2022, which began last October.
In Mexico, the Government has deployed almost 30,000 elements of the Armed Forces on the northern and southern borders, where in the past three months they intercepted 124,300 migrants, 115% more than the same previous period.
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With EFE information
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