Yet another caravan of migrants has set off from southern Mexico, saying they are determined to make their way to the US border.
Like similar caravans in recent months, hundreds of migrants, who are mainly from Haiti, Central America and Venezuela, began walking Friday from Tapachula, a city on the Guatemalan border, according to a report.
The migrants, who were stuck in limbo in the border city, complained about overcrowded and unsanitary prison-like conditions in migrant camps that had sprung up around a federal government building that processes transit visas.
The migrants are traveling from Tapachula to the Mexican town of Mapastepec, more than 30 miles north, to join another caravan bound for the US, they told Reuters.
Earlier this week, dozens of migrants reached a deal with Mexican authorities to halt their march north in exchange for work visas that would allow them to remain in the country, Reuters reported.
Luis Garcia Villagran of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, one of the caravan’s organizers, told Reuters the group struck a deal with federal authorities allowing them to settle in a group of Mexican states far from the Guatemala border, in exchange for ending the caravans. Mexico has also promised to provide housing for the migrants.
