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TAPACHULA (Reuters) - Several thousand migrants from Haiti, South America and Central America set off from southern Mexico headed north on Saturday, clashing with law enforcement trying to hold the caravan back.
Some people among the latest mass movement of migrants trying to pass north through Mexico said they hoped to eventually reach the U.S. border, where the number of migrants trying to gain entry was already hitting new records.
Some 3,000 people, including families with young children, began trekking on foot on Saturday from the city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border toward Mexico's capital.
One of the caravan's organizers, Irineo Mujica, said he was leading the group to Mexico City in protest of the lack of government assistance in the south, where officials have attempted to contain thousands of migrants https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...der-2021-09-21, and to demand legal documents that would let migrants move freely in the country.
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Irineo Mujica , director of the NGO Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and Luis Rey García Villagrán , an activist with the Center for Human Dignification, Leading migrants to Mexico in a caravan To USA Border
Activists and migrants began this Monday, September 13, in the municipality of Tapachula , in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, a fast to ask to be allowed to leave in a caravan heading north.
This act of protest is carried out to pressure the authorities so that thousands of migrants crowded in the south of the country can leave in the next day in a “migrant viacrucis”, after several caravans were dismantled in harsh operations in recent weeks .
This Monday, Irineo Mujica , director of the NGO Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and Luis Rey García Villagrán , an activist with the Center for Human Dignification, settled in a park in Tapachula and informed the migrants that they are carrying out procedures to allow them to move towards the North.
Shortly after, and in protest, the activists stopped eating together with other migrants, hoping that this would soften the immigration authorities, they explained.
“A solution must be found to the disproportionate crisis,” they pointed out at the start of the strike , which they dubbed “fasting for freedom.”
The fast occurs when Mexico and the United States grapple with a historic migratory flow , with 147,000 undocumented persons detected in Mexico from January to August, triple that of 2020, and a record of 212,000 undocumented persons detained in July alone by the Customs and Protection Office. Border (CBP) of the United States.
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