TAPACHULA, Mexico — A bunch of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico’s southern border Sunday hoping to achieve the nation’s north and ultimately the United States. The growth comes weeks earlier than the US presidential election, through which immigration has been a key difficulty.
Some migrants, like Venezuelan Joel Zambrano, consider a brand new administration within the United States may put an finish to asylum nominations via a web-based system known as CBP One.
“This is what scares us. They say this might change as a result of they might shut each the CBP One appointment and all of the providers that assist migrants,” he mentioned.
Both a scarcity of jobs in southern Mexico attributable to a brand new wave of arriving foreigners and a delay in appointments for asylum seekers within the United States have motivated extra teams of migrants to go away the area prior to now month.
“The scenario in my nation may be very dangerous, the president does nothing for us. We spent every week on the border, however getting paperwork takes time,” mentioned Honduran Roberto Domínguez, 48. “The paperwork we obtain are just for us to be in Tapachula and we can’t go away town.”
The group that left Sunday was the third and largest for the reason that begin of the administration of recent Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has thus far made no modifications to the immigration insurance policies established by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Groups of 800 to 600 migrants left the area in early October.
Activist Luis García Villagrán estimates that round 40,000 migrants are at present stranded in southern Mexico.
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