Edgar H. Clemente
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, January 18, 2025, p. 7
Tapachula, Chis., Migrants of different nationalities stranded on the southern border are organizing a new caravan for next Monday, the day Donald Trump assumes the presidency of the United States.
The call to join the contingent that establishes the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, Chiapas, as previous groups have done, circulates through social networks.
If it happens, it would be the 13th exodus since last October, when President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, and the tenth since Trump’s victory in November.
Migrants are looking for a way to leave at all costs to reach the border with the United States because they feel trapped in a country that does not offer them options
considered Luis García Villagrán, from the Center for Human Dignification.
Two contingents are stranded in Escuintla
According to the organization, there are about 35 thousand migrants stranded on the border with Guatemala in a psychosis situation
due to the warnings of the closure of the border with Mexico and the possible end to the CBP One application, in which they can request asylum from the US government.
The last two migrant caravans, which left on January 9 and 12, have been stranded for days in the municipality of Escuintla, about 75 kilometers from Tapachula.
In that town they have protested to demand that the National Migration Institute deliver Multiple Migration Forms that allow them to board buses to reach the center and north of the national territory.
I don’t know why they don’t want to help us, they don’t give us permission to move, there are threats, there is discrimination, there is inhumane treatment of parents, pregnant women, children and sick people. It is something that is happening with people in mobility situations, but international treaties cannot be left in the way.
said Deyvis, a Venezuelan who is part of the caravan.
