A large migrant caravan left southern Mexico on Monday for the United States. Caravan organizers said that there are around 5,000 in the group. Mexican officials put the number at about 3,500 migrants.
Many of the migrants are from Central America and Venezuela. Most are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. They are traveling on foot from Tapachula in southern Mexico, near the Guatemalan border.
Irineo Mujica, a caravan organizer, said the migrants decided to leave Tapachula out of frustration about not being able to obtain humanitarian visas. Some migrants were offered help to recover efforts in Mexican port of Acapulco which was devastated last week by a hurricane. The Mexican authorities have been very slow to respond. The government’s National Migration Institute did not have a comment...more
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