Migrant caravan seeks to ‘make visible the situation of the migrant community’

In just 24 hours, the number of participants increased to more than 3,000 in the migrant caravan that left Chiapas for Mexico City last Sunday, in protest of the fire that left 40 dead in Ciudad Juárez on March 27. . An initiative supported by the organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which demands that the Mexican government allow free transit through the country and the disappearance of the National Institute of Migration.

“Persecution in against of the community migrant”

“we started further either less with about 2,000 people, but HE were uniting in he path and have approximately 3,000. The March was by the 40 people that died [en Ciudad Juárez], but also is a event that we make annual for make visible the situation of the community migrant”comments the activist Irineo Mujica.

“Of some manner we are denouncing the lack of commitment for can change this policy, the persecution in against of the community migrant, and the militarization of the Institute National of Migration,” he stresses.

Regarding the National Institute of Migration, Mujica indicates that “It has been one of the most corrupt bodies and even the government itself has said that it wants to reform it. But you can’t reform something that is utterly corrupted and made lethal on top of everything else when you militarize it. So it is for that reason that we are asking, not for its reform or change of name, but for it to really disappear”.

“Cross to the States”

Although Mujica’s intention is to reach Mexico City in 10 days, several migrants commented that they want to reach the border with the United States. This is the case of Honduran Glender, from the city of San Luis: “I’m with my wife and daughter, we haven’t eaten anything well at the crossing, but here we go, making the effort. There I want to work because in my country there is no work, there is only evil. The gang members took the work out of the country, killed a family member”, says the man.

The situation in Central America is very problematic, according to Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council: “In TRUE are millions of people in great crisis humanitarian and the most of they are affected directly either indirectly by levels of violence like in a war. There is massacres, there is murders by all parts. I i found myself with families hidden because are in danger of death, threatened by the groups armed, drug traffickers. There is groups criminals international and national that are looking for them Is incredible truly it that this going”.

In the United States, Glender has no relatives: “I have no help from anyone, from anyone. I have no help from anyone. I go alone with my family, my wife and my daughter, ”she says. According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, as some 900 died trying to cross without documents from that country to the United States.