Hundreds leave to join Mexico migrant caravan headed for US
MexicoReuters A caravan of at least hundreds of migrants left from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sunday, heading for the US southern border. The smaller caravan plans to join a larger one that left six days ago and is currently stopped about 40 kilometres north in the town of Huixtla. Migrants walk along […]
Updated: Mexico disperses migrants at southern border, as others arrive north
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Mexico sought to deal with an unfolding migrant crisis on Tuesday as it dispersed thousands on its southern border, even as migrants on the other side of the country defied new enforcement measures and continued to arrive at northern cities by cargo train. Large numbers of migrants have been crossing […]
New migrant caravan heads for Mexico City to speed up legal route to US
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Thousands of migrants, detained for months in southern Mexico, formed a new caravan in protest on Sunday to head for the capital to speed up their applications for US asylum. The migrants, mostly Venezuelans, started their march north early in Tapachula, the city bordering Guatemala whose detention centres have been overwhelmed by […]
Migrants crowd Mexico’s refugee offices amid fears of US policy change
Tapachula/Mexico City, MexicoReuters Thousands of migrants have flocked to government offices in southern Mexico seeking asylum since the United States said it would keep restrictions used to quickly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crossed the US-Mexico border. Last month, the US Supreme Court said it would maintain a COVID-19 era measure for […]
Migrant caravan leaves southern Mexico days after Texas tragedy
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Thousands of people set off on foot from southern Mexico early Friday morning, undeterred in their efforts to reach the United States even after the deaths of at least 53 migrants in Texas this week highlighted the dangers facing many migrants. The group, mostly of young men from Central America, Venezuela and […]
Migrants clash with police in southern Mexico
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Dozens of migrants clashed with police in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Tuesday, as frustration boiled over due to authorities keeping them waiting for months to be granted approval for free passage across Mexico to the US border. Migrants, mostly from Haiti and Africa, have been demonstrating in Tapachula, near […]
Thousands of Haitians gather at encampment in southern Mexico, demanding help
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Several thousand Haitian migrants have camped outside a stadium in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, pleading to be transferred to other states and given authorization to travel freely through Mexico and seek employment. Mexican officials last week began moving hundreds of migrants to other states after they had endured lengthy waits for […]
‘We need to work’: Hundreds of migrants form new US-bound caravan in Mexico
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Hundreds of Central American and Haitian migrants formed a new caravan on Friday in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, and began walking north toward the United States. The migrants said they wanted to leave Chiapas as they had not been given humanitarian visas promised by Mexico or transferred […]
Migrant caravan limps north through Mexico, despite dengue and exhaustion
Mapastepec, MexicoReuters A caravan of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean resumed its trek through southern Mexico on Monday, despite concerns that half of them could be injured or sick, including some from dengue fever. Over the past week, the approximately 3,000 migrants, mostly women and children, have trekked […]
New migrant caravan sets off for US from southern Mexico
Tapacula, MexicoReuters A migrant caravan of around 400 people, including many children, set off from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula for the United States on Saturday, just a couple of days after security and migration officials dispersed another large group. Mostly comprising Central Americans and Haitians, the caravan left at around 7:30am local time […]