BREITBART NEWS | Published November 22, 2024
Another large migrant caravan departed from southern Mexico with the goal of entering the U.S. before President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on January 20. The migrants will likely make their way to Mexico City before breaking up and heading for various U.S. border crossing points.
Independent journalist Auden Cabello posted video on social media of a large migrant caravan departing on Wednesday from Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. Cabello stated this is the sixth migrant caravan to depart the region since Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum took office earlier this year.
Cabello reported that five of the caravans departed from Tapachula while the sixth left Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
“They have openly admitted they’re in a rush to get in before Trump’s inauguration,” Cabello wrote on X. “They gave up waiting on CBP One and in a last minute desperate move, they left in caravan. They will attempt to get on the train and make it to the border as soon as they can.”
Another Migrant Caravan Departs Tapachula, Chipas (Cartel Chronicles/Breitbart Texas)
Another Migrant Caravan Departs Tapachula, Chiapas (Cartel Chronicles/Breitbart Texas)
Sources within U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Breitbart Texas this week that, so far, the Government of Mexico is not allowing migrants to utilize the trains to move en masse from Mexico City to the U.S. border region.
“Our intelligence indicates there is still some use of the trains, but the numbers are nowhere near what we have seen before Mexico began impeding migrant travel late last year,” the source told Breitbart’s Randy Clark.
Fox News reported that the newest caravan was about 1,500 migrants. It is mainly composed of Central American single adults and family units.
A migrant from Venezuela told the Associated Press that crossing after Trump is sworn in would be more difficult.
“It is going to be more difficult, that’s why we are going in hopes of getting an appointment quicker so we are able to cross before he (Trump) takes office,” Yotzeli Peña said.
President Trump is expected to end the parole programs utilized extensively under the Biden-Harris administration.
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Hundreds of migrants head toward the Mexico-US border from Tapachula.
NEW YORK POST | Published November 22, 2024
A new caravan of at least 1,500 migrants formed in southern Mexico on Wednesday — with some openly admitting they were desperate to cross into the US before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The migrants — mainly from Central and South America and including large numbers of young children — began marching from the city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, where thousands of migrants have been stranded after being stopped by Mexican authorities from going farther.
Many say they felt the clock ticking ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, after which he promises to close the border and launch the largest deportation operation in the history of the US.
“It is going to be more difficult, that’s why we are going in hopes of getting an appointment quicker so we are able to cross before he (Trump) takes office,” said Yotzeli Peña, 23, one of many migrants from Venezuela in the caravan. “That would be easier.”
The migrants have been largely unable to support themselves in Tapachula, a city of about 350,000, and have decided to risk the nearly 1,100-mile trek through nearly the entirety of Mexico to reach the nearest crossing at Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas.
The journey would take an estimated 16 days without stopping — and much of the caravan consists of children.
Such caravans started forming in 2018, mostly with poorer migrants unable to pay the exorbitant human smuggling fees.
Those attempting to cross Mexico alone or in small groups are often taken into custody and sent back to southern Mexico or deported to their home countries. However, the caravans made it harder for Mexican officials to round up hundreds of people at once.
