TAPACHULA, Mexico — A bunch of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico’s southern border Sunday hoping to succeed in the rustic’s north and in the long run the USA.
The advance comes weeks sooner than the United States presidential election, during which immigration has been a key factor.
Some migrants, like Venezuelan Joel Zambrano, consider a untouched management in the United States may just put an finish to asylum appointments thru a web-based machine known as CBP One.
“That is what makes us fearful. They say this could change because they could both close the CBP One appointment and all the services that are helping migrants,” he stated.
Each the dearth of jobs in Mexico’s south because of a untouched current of incoming foreigners and a prolong in asylum appointments in the United States have aspiring extra teams of migrants to shed the pocket within the date era.
“The situation in my country is very bad, the president doesn’t do anything for us. We spent a week by the border, but getting documents takes time,” stated Honduran Roberto Domínguez, 48. “The documents we get are only for us to be in Tapachula and we cannot leave the city.”
The gang depart Sunday used to be the 3rd and the most important for the reason that starting of the management of untouched Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who thus far has made refuse adjustments in immigration insurance policies established through her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Teams of 800 and 600 migrants left the pocket previous in October.
Activist Luis García Villagrán estimates about 40,000 migrants are recently stranded in southern Mexico.
