Migrant Caravan Sets Out in Southern Mexico Toward US
June 7, 2022
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as posted by the channelSeveral thousand migrants rested for the night on Monday after the largest caravan attempting to leave southern Mexico this year set out earlier in the day.
The migrants have grown tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States.
Their advocates said they wanted to call attention to their plight, timing it with this week's Summit of the America's in Los Angeles.
They walked from the southern city of Tapachula to thetown of Alvaro Obregón about 10 miles (15 kilometers) away before stopping to rest for the night.
Venezuelan migrant Inalia Mendoza said she hoped the United States could help solve the economic situation in her country.
"We would be happy to return to our homeland," she said.
Fellow migrant Yorgelis Díaz said she would not have made her children go through Panama's Darien jungle if things weren't so bad in Venezuela.
The caravan departed just hours before Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he would not be attending the Summit of the Americas because the Biden administration did not invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to participate.
For months, migrants and asylum seekers have complained that Mexico's strategy of containing them in the southernmost reaches of the country has hampered their dream of reaching the United States.
The phenomenon of migrant caravans took off in 2018.
Previously, smaller annual caravans moved through Mexico to highlight migrants' plight, but without the stated goal of reaching the U.S. border.
An October 2021 caravan grew to about 4,000 migrants before it diminished in southern Mexico.
Another that was broken up by authorities in Guatemala in January of that year was estimated to be even larger.
While the caravans have garnered media attention, the migrants travelling in them represent a tiny fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. border every day, usually with the help of smugglers.
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