Elio Henríquez, Rubén Villalpando and Jesús Estrada
Correspondents
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, November 19, 2021, p. 6
Around 3,000 migrants, according to the organizers, left in a caravan this Thursday from Tapachula, Chiapas, to Mexico City in order to demand that the immigration authorities provide them with safe-conducts that allow them to travel throughout the country, reported Luis García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignification.
The group, made up mostly of Haitians, Central Americans and Venezuelans, left the center of Tapachula after 6 am; in the afternoon they arrived in Huehuetán, 26 kilometers from the starting point.
The only way for the caravan to stop is for the National Migration Institute (INM) to deliver the signed cards to travel throughout the territory
he added in a telephone interview. He commented that at 9 a.m. the contingent, in which many children and women participate, had crossed the immigration checkpoint located in the town of Viva México, on the outskirts of Tapachula, where police officers tried to stop the contingent that left the October 23 and who is now in Veracruz.
The migrants are very excited and we believe that the authorities are not going to arrest us. The factor will be time, the fatigue of the people who stay, and whoever wants to give up, who gives himself up. I believe that at least 1,500 we will reach
to the caravan that is in Veracruz.
García Villagrán, one of the organizers of the tour, pointed out that before leaving this morning, 24 spokesmen for the caravan, of 14 nationalities, and if at any moment Migration wants to dialogue, it has to be with those 24
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27 rescued in Chihuahua
In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, municipal police officers rescued 27 Central Americans, including seven children and some from Chiapas, who polleros They were kept hidden in a hotel in the La Cuesta neighborhood, early yesterday morning, and were transferred to the municipal gym shelter where they are provided with food and medical and legal services, among others, reported the Municipal Public Security Secretariat. Part of the assurance was given to the National Migration Institute and the Attorney General’s Office.
