Migrant caravan regroups in Mexico after government promise of papers falls through
ABC News
About 2,000 migrants have resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised
ARRIAGA, Mexico -- A caravan of about 2,000 migrants on Monday resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised.
The original caravan of about 6,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Central America had started walking on Christmas Eve. But after New Year’s Day, the government persuaded them to give up their march, promising they would get some kind of unspecified documents.
The migrants were seeking transit or exit visas that might allow them to take buses or trains to the U.S. border. But they were given papers that don’t allow them to leave the southern state of Chiapas, on the Guatemalan border.
Migrants set out walking Monday from the railway town of Arriaga, near the border with Oaxaca state, about 150 miles (245 kilometers) from Tapachula, where they started the original caravan on Dec. 24.
Salvadoran migrant Rosa Vázquez said Mexican immigration officials provided shelter in the town of Huixtla, Chiapas, and offered her papers that would have allowed her to remain in the state.
