New migrant caravan with thousands of people leaves the southern border of Mexico towards the United States

(EFE) – Thousands of migrants, mostly Venezuelans who left their country after the electoral crisis unleashed at the end of July, left this Sunday in a new caravan called “El Niño”, from the southern border of Mexico, bound for the United States.

The massive contingent of foreigners requested humanitarian aid from the Mexican Government for the journey they have undertaken in search of reaching the border with the United States.

In the group, children and women are seen walking and pushing strollers, under heavy rain that accompanies their journey along federal highway 200 that will take them to Mexico City.

When asked if she was afraid of making the trip on foot through Mexico, a mother responded to : “Fear is staying in Venezuela, in need.”

The young Venezuelan David Josué García Chirino, 18, shared with Efe his desire to be able to study in the North American country, bring his family and offer him a different life.

“It has been a little hard, but I have the faith to move forward to go to the United States because it is the only country (in which) we have the possibility of having a job that can help us move forward,” García commented.

For almost two months, García left Venezuela after the conflict caused by the presidential elections of last July 28, and shared that his trip has consisted of walking alone and traveling by bus for days, and this morning, he joined the contingent from the south door.

This is the third largest caravan that has left Mexico during the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum.

Migrants argue that their main reason for walking is due to the lack of employment and their desire to go to the United States.

Elí Castillo, originally from Venezuela, told Efe that he worked as an Army sergeant and left that country because he did not agree with the ideology of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.

“Because they were giving orders that I could not comply with and I am a human being like all Venezuelans, no, but I do not agree with the Government, I have a family, I have children (…) it is the first time I have left my country,” said Castillo. .

Gilberto Herrero Mejía, another migrant from Venezuela, denounced that in his country the situation is critical and the money is not enough, because in his case, he was dedicated to driving a bus with a salary of 10 to 15 dollars, which was insufficient to survive.

He added that he has now decided to be able to reunite with his relatives in the United States to find work and support his family.

“That they help us, that they give us support because we want to behave well, we go with the same mind of not doing bad things, but we are going to work, without taking away anyone’s job there is work for everyone, I believe, United States It is a fairly large country, which helps us if it is not angry with Latinos,” Herrero explained.

Migrants from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, among other nationalities, also travel in the caravan.

Until this Sunday, the National Immigration Institute of Mexico had not commented on this new mobilization and is trying to obtain information about it.

In the past, similar caravans have been dismantled by Mexican immigration authorities who have assisted migrants and offered alternatives to regularize their immigration status in Mexican territory.