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MEXICO – The largest caravan of Central American migrants crossing Mexico to the US border has been split into smaller groups, migrants and local authorities said Monday.
Over the weekend, the large caravan that had been in Mexico City most of the previous week took the road back to the US border. But the caravan broke into several smaller pieces while some groups managed to catch the bus, while others hitchhiked and others still walked.
The caravan scored a month on the road Monday. After traveling 30 miles a day in southwestern Mexico, migrants seek to hitchhike faster to get to Tijuana, just across the border with San Diego, California. said these people.
"People are moving at different speeds, some are more impatient than others. But the plan is to bring everything together in Tijuana, "said Santiago Guevara, a Honduran migrant who is now in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. He has parents in Atlanta, Georgia, and, like most migrants, wants to seek asylum in the United States.
A smaller group of about a hundred migrants arrived Sunday in Tijuana on buses. Two groups of about 800 people in total are progressing through the states of Sinaloa and Nayarit in the Pacific, and about 1,000 migrants have arrived in Guadalajara, in western Jalisco, 1,400 south of Tijuana.
A larger group of about 3,500 people is also heading to Guadalajara.
It will probably be later this week or early next week before the majority of migrants arrive in Tijuana.
A migrant from Central America observed a passing over while others were traveling by truck to Irapuato, Mexico on Monday.
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Marco Ugarte / Associated Press
In the coming weeks, they could be joined by two other caravans. A group of some 1,500 migrants arrives in the city of Puebla, 150 km south of the Mexican capital, while a third group of about 1,000 people from El Salvador is now in the town. 39 State of Veracruz in the Gulf, according to Irineo Mujica, head of People Without Frontiers, a non-profit organization providing support to different groups of migrants crossing Mexico.
The caravans triggered a regional migration crisis. Mexican authorities are increasingly overwhelmed by the enormous logistical and health challenges associated with the arrival of large numbers of migrants. President Donald Trump called the invasion caravan and ordered the deployment of at least 5,000 troops to the US border.
If all groups travel to Tijuana, the arrival of nearly 8,000 migrants in the coming weeks will overwhelm a city where nearly 30 of its migrant shelters are already at full capacity, according to activists.
Most migrants say they want to seek asylum in the United States. But their odds are lower than ever, said lawyers specializing in human rights and migration. Last week, Mr. Trump signed a decree to deny asylum to immigrants illegally taken at the border.
Going through a legal entry point into the United States is also difficult: the Tijuana border bridge is overwhelmed by more than 2,500 migrants seeking asylum, activists said, and most migrants are not not allowed to enter.
"Their chances of getting asylum are minimal," said Janeth Moreno, an immigration law lawyer based in Boston, Massachusetts. the cases are treated. "
Write to Juan Montes at [email protected]
