New 10,000-strong migrant caravan would leave for U.S. the day North American leaders summit starts
Immigration
Expert says Mexican president using caravans as 'leverage' on Biden administration; industry leader warns dealing with masses of migrants affects border trade
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Nov 11, 2021 / 07:06 PM CST / Updated: Nov 11, 2021 / 07:06 PM CST
Migrants heading in a caravan to the US, travel on the back of a truck towards Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status in Mapastepec, Chiapas State, Mexico, on November 1, 2021. – Around 1,000 migrants seeking refugee status are marching towards the Mexican capital, as the government faced a call by the United Nations to process the requests quickly. The caravan, including foreigners from at least eight countries, set off from the southern city of Tapachula on October 23 demanding “justice, dignity and freedom.” (Photo by ISAAC GUZMAN / AFP) (Photo by ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A second major migrant caravan could be assembling in southern Mexico shortly.
Activist Irineo Mujica, who is currently leading upwards of 1,000 Central and Haitian migrants through the state of Oaxaca, said he’s expecting to meet up with a caravan 10 times larger in nearby Veracruz on November 18.
“We are not going to Mexico City, we are now going the northern border, we are going to Sonora,” Mujica said this week on social media. “For that reason, I am calling on all our migrant peers in Tapachula, in Coatzcoalcos, in Tabasco, in Acayuca […] to gather on the 18th of this month.”
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