Hundreds of migrants start long walk to Mexico's border with US

(5 Nov 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tapachula, Mexico - 05 November 2024
1. Various of migrants marching out of Tapachula chanting slogans
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Heyson Díaz, Venezuelan Migrant:
"We are leaving Tapachula because we know for a fact that the southern border is getting more dangerous. We don't have security nor job opportunities and we have resorted to walking to a place where we can get a job, and we get ahead with our families."
4. Migrant leading the march and chanting
UPSOUND (Spanish) "We are workers, international workers"
5. Various of migrants marching
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yohana Bardales, Honduran Migrant:
"We emigrate because there is no work in our country, no solutions. Sometimes we have a shop and our shop doesn't work for us because of the wellbeing of employment itself, because if there is no work for other people then there is nobody to purchase something in our shop."
7. Various of migrants marching
8. Various aerials of migrants marching ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Some 2,500 migrants from at least a dozen countries have started walking in southern Mexico, hoping Mexican authorities will allow them to eventually reach the U.S. border.

Those walking had more immediate concerns than U.S. politics.

"The southern border (of Mexico) is becoming more dangerous, and furthermore, there’s no chance to work,” said Venezuelan Heyson Díaz.

Groups of several hundred to several thousand migrants moving together en masse has become more common in recent years.

Sometimes, caravans form when immigration is in the public discussion, like in June 2022, as leaders from across the Americas gathered in Los Angeles for a summit to discuss immigration.

In October 2020, a caravan of about 3,000 migrants formed in Honduras ahead of that year’s U.S. election. Authorities in Guatemala stopped it.

Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador frequently criticized the caravans as being political in nature.

When caravans started, they were made up of migrants who could not afford to pay smugglers but who found safety in numbers as they moved north through territory dominated by Mexico’s powerful cartels.

More recently, Mexican authorities have allowed migrants to exhaust themselves walking for a few days and then move in to round them up or to offer permits that will allow them to travel north for a short period of time.

The only caravans that made it to the U.S. border were among the earliest in late 2018 and early 2019.

One that formed in Honduras in October 2018 and reached about 7,000 migrants was used to make political hay in the U.S. ahead of mid-term elections.

While visually and symbolically powerful, the caravans represent only a fraction of the migrants moving north on any given day through Mexico.

Most of the traffic happens out of view, conducted by smugglers.

AP Video shot by Edgar Clemente Hernández

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