On Saturday morning, the caravan called “Via Crucis Doloroso” departed from the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, with around 500 migrants, mostly from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Colombia, in order to reach Mexico City.
Once in the country's capital, they intend to request humanitarian visas that allow them to travel freely through Mexico until they reach the border with the United States, where they seek asylum.
Prior to the start of the caravan, staff from the National Institute of Migration (INM) asked migrants to wait until Monday to be treated, but foreigners refused, as reported by El Universal.
Luis Rey García Villagrán, director of the Center for Human Dignification and organizer of the caravan, assured that families travel in the contingent who were unable to pay the INM for immigration documents.
On Good Friday, around 200 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, Haiti, Africa and Central America, staged the “Migrant Way of the Cross” in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, prior to the departure of a new migrant caravan for Mexico City.
The walk left the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, carrying blankets with legends such as “Migrant Way of the Cross 2022″ and “Christ Migrant”, while children, women and families carried small wooden crosses with them.
Venezuelan Juan Cancino stressed that they are participating in this exodus because they are fleeing a dictatorship and their main objective is not to stay in Mexico, but rather they seek to advance to the United States.
“We are three months late, they want us here and we no longer have money, besides there is no more to eat and our human rights (the National Institute of) Migration and the Police are violating us,” he assured the agency Efe.
He said that they are given a document to do a procedure in the country, “but they remove it and break it”.
Antonio Cuello Albarrán, a migrant from that same country, explained that with the “Migrant Way of the Cross” they ask for permission to travel to the northern border.
“We are going to walk to fulfill our dreams, which we promised so much to our children and family, to get to the United States, everything is difficult, but not impossible,” he said.
Luis Rey García Villagrán, criticized that while migration offices in Tapachula are saturated, when migrants want to move to other administrative headquarters they are detained.
The region is experiencing a record flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2021, which ended September 30.
Mexico deported more than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior.
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