Migrant caravan “Dios con nosotros” leaves Tapachula, Mexico, today heading for the United States

The migrant caravan “Dios con nosotros” leaves Tapachula, Chiapas, on Tuesday to resume its journey toward the United States, according to Mexican media reports and the EFE news agency. The group, of around 1,000 people — some reports put it at up to 2,000 — will depart at 4:00 p.m. from Bicentenario Park.

Most are families from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba and Haiti. They left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on November 4, entered Mexico through Suchiate on Friday and reached Tapachula on Sunday after walking about 35 kilometers in two days. It is the third Honduran caravan to reach Mexico's southern border in recent months, and the 23rd since Claudia Sheinbaum took office.

Many are traveling in hopes that the Democratic victory in the November 3 elections will open the border, but there has been no official announcement to that effect. Immigration attorney Kathia Quirós told Noticias Telemundo that “the border remains super closed” and that the new lawmakers do not take office until January 2027.

The caravan has asked the Mexican government for documents to travel through the country without walking along the highways. Meanwhile, the National Migration Institute moved about 180 people to the Siglo XXI migration station between Monday and Tuesday, and stopped another group of about 100 migrants in Suchiate.

Photo: El Orbe

Source: EFE