Mexican National Guard dismantles migrant caravan with Dominicans at the southern border

Elements of the National Guard (GN) and the National Institute of Migration (INM) dismantled on Tuesday a migrant caravan that planned to leave with 2,000 people from the southern border towards the United States.

The operation surprised the migrants in the central park of Tapachula, on the Mexico-Guatemala border, where the agents first invited the foreigners to turn themselves in with the promise of granting them documents to regularize their stay.

Jaime Severino, a migrant from the Dominican Republic, told EFE that the elements first seized some 2,000 migrants who intended to leave in a caravan, although they later released a certain number.

The authorities transferred the migrants to the Siglo 21 migration station to invite them to process their Multiple Migratory Form (FMM), a document with which they can remain legally in the state of Chiapas, but which prevents them from transiting to other entities.

The migrants have rejected this document, which the Government of Mexico is provisionally offering, for which they have warned that they seek to leave in caravans to face the risk together.

Other groups of migrants who do accept the FMM continue to sleep and wander in the streets of Tapachula.

Some Venezuelan migrants have given up traveling in the caravans for fear of INM and National Guard operatives.

For these South Americans, it is a risk and a sacrifice to walk en masse to advance to the northern border to cross into the United States.

Doris Zuley, a Venezuelan migrant, asked for a solution in Mexico, if the Government continues not to allow them transit.

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“We know that we must respect justice, because we must not be violent, because we are not going to achieve anything like that,” he said.

On the other hand, his compatriot Edwin Rivas, who stays in the central park of Tapachula, indicated that, if it is possible to go out in a caravan, he will do it because he has children and needs to find how to feed them.

In addition, he argued that the Government’s Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar) takes up to four months to carry out its process and advance to the next appointment.

He stressed that hundreds of migrants from about 10 countries are still stranded in Tapachula and cannot work to support their children.

The region is experiencing a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office detained an unprecedented number of more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2022.

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