More than 2,000 migrants are currently traveling through southern Mexico with the help of government officials and NGOs with the eventual goal of reaching the U.S. border. Calling themselves the Migrant Way of the Cross, the group is currently moving toward Mexico City. From there, the migrants plan to get buses and other means of transportation to eventually reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
One of the cartel gunmen allegedly killed by Mexican Army soldiers after surrendering in a city near the Texas-Mexico border was a migrant from Honduras. The migrant reportedly traveled in one of the caravans of 2019 and then joined the ranks of organized crime.
Activists and Syrian migrants in Turkey are making attempts to form a massive caravan of illegals to cross into the EU illegally.
Mexico’s government issued approximately 3,000 travel permits to members of a migrant caravan that arrived over the weekend in Chiapas. Rather than trying to stop the group, authorities issued permits and allowed them to continue north in a fragmented manner.
Mexican police and immigration officials allowed a nearly 10,000-strong migrant caravan to cross the country’s southern border and head to the United States, an organizer told Fox News. The group departed without government resistance from Tapachula in southern Mexico on Monday.
Authorities in Guatemala claim to have stopped the first migrant caravan of 2022. The efforts to contain the group led to a violent clash with dozens of detentions and 15 law enforcement officials sustaining a variety of injuries.
The Mexican president offered his American counterpart help in convincing U.S. lawmakers to offer legal status to illegal migrants.
On Saturday’s “Fox News Live,” Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) stated that there will continue to be migrant caravans. Because as long as the Biden administration keeps sending the message that “if you will get here, we will let you stay,
Mexico’s government has agreed to slow and regulate the flow of migrants heading to the U.S. border, a migration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told Breitbart News.
Officials in Mexico say they expected a spike in mass migration in 2021 due to the impact of natural disasters, failed economies, and the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
