About 300 migrants start walking north in southern Mexico, but goal is not US border
by: Associated Press
Posted: Aug 6, 2025 / 04:41 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 6, 2025 / 04:41 PM CDT
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — About 300 migrants walked out of this southern Mexican city Wednesday, hoping to move north, even as the activist who helped organize them remained in police custody over allegations of human trafficking.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Luis García Villagrán, the leader of a local nongovernmental organization arrested Tuesday in Tapachula, “is not an activist.” She said he was tied to trafficking people, “that is the crime.”
Mexican authorities arrest outspoken activist ahead of a planned migrant caravan
Sheinbaum said Wednesday during her daily news briefing that there had been an arrest order pending for García Villagrán for years. It was unknown why the outspoken and very public figure hadn’t been arrested earlier.
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/about-300-migrants-start-walking-north-in-southern-mexico-but-goal-is-not-us-border/
