Migrants left Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, bound for Mexico City to demand that the government punish those responsible for the tragedy that occurred in the immigration station in Ciudad Juárez
Around 3,000 migrants began a caravan this Sunday, April 23, in southern Mexico that they called “Migrant Stations of the Cross” to demand justice for the death of 40 people in the fire at an immigration station in Ciudad Juárez in March.
The contingent left Tapachula early in the morning, on the border with Guatemala, bound for Mexico City to demand that the government punish those responsible for the tragedy.
Irineo Mujicaof the organization Towns Without Borders and who called this mobilization, said that they are asking that the head of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño, be tried, all the immigration stations in the country be closed definitively, the INM be demilitarized and that agile forms of regularization for migrants.
«In this Via Crucis we ask the government for justice for those murdered, that they stop hiding the high command, we also ask that these prisons (he refers to the immigration stations) be finished; We also ask for the disappearance of the National Migration Institute,” said the defender from the Tapachula Bicentennial Park, prior to the start of the caravan.
The migrants carried a wooden cross and banners with slogans blaming the Mexican government for the tragedy in Ciudad Juárez. “The State killed them”, “State crime”, “Via Crucis to migrants”, they said.
According to the organizers, they hope to arrive in just over a week at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City to present their demands.
There has not been such a large caravan since June 2022, when some 7,000 migrants marched as part of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Since then, the small groups have tried to leave Tapachula, the city that some migrants consider a large immigration prison due to the difficulties they face in leaving and continuing on their journey in search of regularization.
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