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Migrants queue to get on a bus after accepting an offer from the Mexican government to disembark a caravan for the U.S. and grant humanitarian visas to transit through Mexican territory near Escuintla, Mexico, Nov. 28, 2021 obtain. REUTERS / Jose Luis Gonzalez
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TAPACHULA, Mexico, Nov. 29 (Reuters) – Approximately 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, overnight on Sunday in a series of caravans heading for the United States.
By Monday morning, according to a Reuters witness, the caravan had advanced about 25 kilometers to reach the city of Huehuetan.
The majority of the members were families from Central America and the Caribbean who fled violence, poverty and the mounting hunger crisis in their home countries.
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For months, migrants and human rights activists have been denouncing the “prison-like” conditions in Tapachula. According to Mexican rules, migrants have to wait – often months – to process their applications before they can move to other parts of the country without fear of deportation. Continue reading
Thousands of migrants waited in line for hours on Monday at a stadium where immigration officials had set up a processing center.
“There is no life for migrants in Tapachula. We have no jobs, we have no money to pay for housing,” said Atis, a Haitian migrant who waits in line and refuses to give his last name.
“We wait here for the immigration, but if there is no other option, then we go on foot, in another caravan.”
Last week, the Mexican government transported hundreds of migrants from Tapachula to other states to prevent more caravans from forming. But tens of thousands of migrants still remain in the city. Continue reading
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Reporting by Jose Luis Gonzalez; Letter from Laura Gottesdiener; Editing by Daina Solomon and Dan Grebler
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