Seven-thousand-strong caravan of migrants in Mexico headed for the U.S. border

More than 7 thousand migrants decided to leave the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and moved by caravan to the north of the country to the border with the United States.

Thousands of people under the slogan “Exodus from poverty” moved out of the park Bicentenario in the Mexican city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala and headed towards the coastal highway, on which they intend to go north.

Mexican human rights organization “Center for the Defense of Human Dignity”, the caravan includes more than 7,000 migrants from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela. They also include people from Bangladesh, India, China and Pakistan.

According to Luis Garcia Villagran, head of the “Center for the Defense of Human Dignity,” migrants marching in the caravan is a “last resort.” He noted that since September, Mexico’s National Institute of Migration has stopped considering applications from applicants from other countries for legal migration status.

Earlier it was reported that senior U.S. administration officials will head to Mexico, where they will meet with the country’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to discuss ways to resolve the migration crisis at the border.

The delegation is expected to include Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and White House homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

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