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Morale seems to be eroding in the caravans of migrants heading to the United States. Some members choose to return home, some opting to try their luck in Mexico and others asking for "safe and dignified transportation", while the endless march begins to claim victims. .
The first of three caravans attempting the journey is still at least 1,000 kilometers from the US-Mexico border. On Tuesday, a Fox News crew traveling with the main caravan observed migrants lined up along a bridge outside the town of Niltepec, hoping to be driven into a series of lined buses.
According to estimates by the Associated Press, this caravan numbered around 4,000 people, but its number is slowly decreasing as tired travelers abandon or apply for protected status in Mexico. .
"All the friends I've gone to want to go back to," Hasiel Hernandez, a 28-year-old Honduran mother, told the news agency.
Hernandez added that she had decided to leave the caravan after learning from her husband that her 3-year-old daughter at home had stopped eating because she missed her mother. She was part of a group of migrants who met Monday at a checkpoint near Tapanatepec to ask for help when she returned to Honduras. Many fled this country a few weeks ago to join the caravan to escape the poverty and violence that prevail in Honduras.
President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security have confirmed the presence of gang members inside the caravan and, over the weeks, reports of internal conflicts between travelers have been reported. Migrants from El Salvador reportedly beat a Guatamalan after taking him for a kidnapper. Rising tensions have pushed caravan officials to demand a day off and to create a "safety committee," reported the Republic of Arizona, another sign that the unrest is not limited to rare altercations.
The Mexican Federal Police meet a new group of Central American migrants after they have massively massed across the Suchiate River, which connects Guatemala and Mexico, to Tecun Uman, Guatemala.
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According to the Associated Press agency, the Mexican government has shown little inclination to assist the caravan, with the exception of its migrant protection agency which has led some of the caravan's laggards. in the neighboring town this weekend. He continues to make statements about the number of migrants who have applied for refugee status or who have asked to return to their country of origin.
On Monday, the Mexican Federal Police also aggressively attempted to return hundreds of additional migrants – who make up the second caravan – after crossing the Suchiate River to enter Mexico from Guatemala.
Once on the Mexican side, the migrants were surrounded and escorted by policemen in dark uniforms while the sirens lamented. The riverfront confrontation followed a more violent confrontation on the border bridge over the river on Sunday night when migrants threw stones and used sticks against the Mexican police. A migrant has died of a rubber bullet in this area, Guatemalan firefighters said.
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A group of Central American migrants bound for the US border has flown through the Suchiate River, which connects Guatemala and Mexico, to Tecun Uman, Guatemala.
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Migrants in the main caravan plan Tuesday to walk to Juchitan, a hike some 32 miles from their starting point this morning, reports the Associated Press.
A member of the Fox News team watched them yesterday and got help in the form of rides offered by trucks and other vehicles.
Ramiro Nolasco, the mayor of Zanatepec, said his residents Monday organized a bus and several trucks to transport members of the caravan.
"We are helping our brothers from other countries with food, water and transportation," Nolasco said. "It will be very little, compared to what they need."
El Salvador's immigration agency has also announced that a group of Salvadorans, including several dozen children and adolescents – the third caravan – had legally crossed the border. entered Guatemala on Sunday and had about 500 people.
Further north on Monday, near the border between Hidalgo and Arizona, the Interior Ministry of Mexico said in a statement that two Hondurans aged 17 and 22 had been arrested while l 39; one of them had tried to shoot at the police at Ignacio Zaragoza. He clarified that the Glock had not fired and that no officer had been injured.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
