The fleet regroups after being ‘cheated’ by the INM

Chiapas, Mexico.- After the condemnation of “fraud” from the National Migration Institute (INM), the caravan called “Emigration from Poverty” regrouped and resumed this Monday, January 8, now with about 2 thousand people, its journey in the city of Arriaga. , in Chiapas.

“They failed to comply, they left them in some shelters (…) they separated families and created serious problems,” said Luis García Villagren of the AC Human Dignity Center and local press who accompanied the march. For Reuters..

“Immigration lied to us, they promised something when they didn’t keep it, they just wanted to break up the group, but they were wrong because we’re all here and we’re going to walk,” said Salvadoran Rosa Vasquez. Vasquez said.

On Christmas Eve and after a high-level United States delegation visited the country to meet with President López Obrador about the migrant crisis, about 6,000 undocumented people left Tapachula on December 23 to try to reach US territory.

The convoy walked about 100 kilometers to Mapastepac for over a week, but on 2 January they stopped moving due to the INM’s promise to provide them with documents so that they could proceed on their route regularly; However, the majority never received a permit.

The INM transported the migrants by bus to migrant shelters in Huixtla, Tonala, Pijijiapan, Arriaga, Palenque and Barriozabal, activist Luis García Villagran told Reforma.

“We spent two days waiting for a response, immigration arrived on the third day,” Vasquez said.

“We signed the contract with the lawyer (…) but they didn’t give any answer.”

The convoy is expected to travel more than 40 kilometers to San Pedro Tapanatepec.

The governments of Mexico and the United States agreed on December 27, while the fleet was still transiting through Chiapas, to create a joint team and periodic meetings to address the issue of migration, in which countries from Central America and the South would join. America, Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Barcena, reported.

“Nothing in particular, that is, we just support our interest in continuing to work together. What we are going to do is create a joint working team to meet periodically, we work together with Guatemala, with the countries of the South. America and Central America, that’s what was really talked about and how we’re going to support each other,” he said.

With information from Reuters