Civil and business organizations estimated this Tuesday that there are more than 125,000 dispersed in the Mexican state of Chiapas -border with Guatemala- and on the way to Oaxaca.
Among the migrants are Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but also from India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, China and Africa.
The president of the Center for Human Dignity (CDH), Luis Rey García Villagrán, considered that some 50,000 people live in Tapachula alone, a municipality bordering Guatemala, of which 25,000 carry out immigration procedures, while the rest go to the United States without documents.
“There is a large flow of people who enter every day, I was in the ‘coyote pass’ (smugglers’ route) on the border between Mexico and Guatemala and about 500 people are entering daily,” he told Efe. .
The president of the pro-centro de Tapachula business organization, César García Jiménez, told the press that more than 172,000 migrants have passed through the city in recent months.
While José Antonio Chol, from the council of organizations of Izquierda Siempre, mentioned that there are “a large number of desperate foreigners” who seek to leave Tapachula, demanding that the authorities of the National Institute of Migration (INM) assist them.
“There are many migrants who walk along the coastal road, along the paths and lost paths, where they are assaulted and assaulted,” he denounced.
These migrants are scattered in the municipalities of the border between Guatemala and Mexico, from Hidalgo to Oaxaca, advancing in small groups or caravans of around 1,000 people.
Source: TSF
