More than 2,000 migrants block highway and federal office in Chiapas

Elio Henriquez

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, July 28, 2022, p. 13

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis., Yesterday afternoon, more than 2,000 migrants blocked the coastal highway and the accesses to the Comprehensive Border Traffic Service Center (CAITF) in the municipality of Huixtla; They demanded the delivery of documents to travel to the border with the United States, official sources reported.

Shortly before, the foreigners struggled with National Guard agents and threw chairs that broke the windows of a nearby office; no injuries were reported.

we want permissionchanted the undocumented immigrants, most of whom arrived on Monday night, in a caravan that left Tapachula.

The sources indicated that the nonconformity of the migrants is due to the fact that the immigration authorities only serve people with an appointment and those of the caravan barely arrived on Monday night; only your particular data has been received.

The CAITF houses one of the customs offices where cargo trucks and buses from Central America heading to the center of Mexico are checked, so the closure of access to the highway interrupted their activities.

On the other hand, police officers from the three levels of government who were carrying out an anti-gang operation in Tapachula discovered a safe house where some 100 foreigners of different nationalities were hidden.

The uniformed men were walking around the Cafetales neighborhood around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday when they saw two men outside a home and when they saw the authorities they fled.

The gate of the house was left open and the authorities entered to check the property, where they located 100 undocumented immigrants, for which they reported to the Migrant Prosecutor’s Office. Agents from the National Migration Institute came to the scene with six vehicles to transfer the Central Americans to the Siglo 21 station in Tapachula.