Hundreds of migrants, most of them Honduran, walked into Tapachula on Sunday with plans to rest for two days before continuing north along Mexico’s Pacific coast. Several told Reuters that Democratic gains in last week’s U.S. midterm elections gave them hope that President Donald Trump would ease his immigration policies.
The caravan, known as “Dios con Nosotros,” or “God With Us,” set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, around Nov. 3. More than 1,000 people crossed from Guatemala into Mexico late Friday on the Rodolfo Robles International Bridge at Suchiate, according to Mexican news reports. The migrants walked about 35 kilometers over the next two days, stopping in Frontera Hidalgo and Metapa de Domínguez before reaching Tapachula’s Parque Bicentenario.
Hundreds of migrants, mostly Hondurans, left the Mexican border town of Metapa de Dominguez in a caravan and walked to the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state. Migrants told Reuters they foresaw a weakening of President Trump's anti-migrant policies after the midterm elections pic.twitter.com/t6jvZxmyJK
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Honduran migrants interviewed along the route said they had struggled to find steady work at home. Those who had jobs said their wages fell short of what their families needed as food and fuel prices rose. “Most of us are heading to the United States, and I think we’re all people who want to work,” one participant told Reuters.
Several migrants said they hoped the Democrats’ capture of Congress in the Nov. 3 elections would improve their chances of gaining entry to the United States or seeking asylum. Others objected to being treated as criminals because they were traveling with the caravan. Alvaro Vanega, a Nicaraguan traveling with the group, said, “We’re not going to do anything wrong.”
The group also includes migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti. Footage showed families pushing strollers and participants carrying Honduran and Guatemalan flags as local police and Mexican immigration officers watched from the highway.
This is the third major Honduran-led caravan to enter southern Mexico since September, according to Mexican news reports. The two earlier groups followed the same coastal route through Chiapas before officers from Mexico’s National Migration Institute dispersed them near Arriaga, northwest of Tapachula.
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