[ad_1]
Central American migrants settle in a temporary shelter in Queretaro, Mexico on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants were back en route to the US border on Saturday after subways dedicated to the outskirts of the city. capital and drivers began to offer rides north. (AP Photo / Rodrigo Abd) The Associated Press
By MARCO UGARTE and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press
QUERETARO, Mexico (AP) – Mexican local authorities once again helped thousands of Central Americans migrate to the US border on Sunday.
On a toll platform west of the city of Queretaro, central Mexico, where the group spent the night from Saturday to Friday, the police helped find trucks to pick up migrants and refugees. prevented trying to stop the drivers themselves.
The Queretaro government said via Twitter that 6,531 migrants crossed this state between Friday and Saturday. 5,771 of them would leave Sunday morning after staying in three shelters that they had prepared, the most important of which was a football stadium in the state capital.
These figures seemed even higher than the figures set by officials when the group was in Mexico City for several days, suggesting that other migrants would have caught up with the main caravan.
The migrants started walking before dawn on Sunday for Irapuato, about 100 km to the west, after entering the state of Guanajuato, where the local authorities also assisted them.
A day earlier, a similar scene occurred when the migrant caravan left Mexico City. Dedicated metropolitan trains took them through the capital before dawn and, on a toll to the north of the city, they formed neat lines to wait for their turn and board the 18-wheeled vehicles that wanted help them to travel 200 km Queretaro.
The migrants seem to be on a path to Tijuana, just across the border with San Diego, which is still 2,575 kilometers away.
The caravan became a campaign issue during the mid-term elections in the United States, and US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 troops at the border to repel the migrants. Trump also insinuated without evidence that there were criminals or even terrorists in the group.
Many migrants claim to flee endemic poverty, gang violence and political instability mainly in the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. They are now on the road for weeks.
Mexico offered migrants asylum, asylum or work visas, and his government said 2,697 temporary visas had been issued to individuals and families to protect them while they waited for the process. 45 days to obtain a more permanent status.
But most have vowed to continue in the United States.
Sherman reported from Mexico.
Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, disseminated, rewritten or redistributed.
