Migrant caravan agrees to be transferred by buses from Mexico City to the north of the country

Photo: Sáshenka Gutiérrez / EFE

The migrant caravan that arrived in the past 12 from December to Mexico City, from Tapachula Chiapas, agreed with the Mexican migration authorities to be transferred to several states in the north of the country to continue with your humanitarian visa procedures.

“ This caravan today separates, dissolves so that everyone can follow their dreams individually , some of you or better almost everyone, we are going to spend Christmas together with God’s blessing, “said Irineo Mujica, leader of the organization Pueblo sin Fronteras in the presence of dozens of migrants and with the help of a loudspeaker.

With In order to regularize their situation in Mexico, the migrants who stayed at the “Casa del Peregrino”, located in the Gustavo A. Madero Mayor’s Office in Mexico City, near the Basilica of Guadalupe, will be transferred this Wednesday afternoon 22 December in 12 buses to the offices of the National Institute of Migration of the following destinations: Monterrey, Nuevo León; Hermosillo, Sonora; Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Chihuahua.

Through an information card, the National Migration Institute specified that four of the buses will go to Hermosillo, five to Monterrey, one to Chihuahua and two to Ciudad Juárez.

Faced with the agreement reached, migrants of various Central American nationalities began early to pick up their belongings from the Casa del Peregrino waiting for be able to start your trip this afternoon on buses, and where migration staff will also travel who will be in charge of supervising the routes at all times as agreed.

It is expected that tomorrow Thursday 23 December, many of the migrants have completed their trip to the north of the country where they will be closer and closer to the border with the United States, a country where most of them intend to arrive.

This caravan that dissolves today, the past left 22 October from Tapachula, Chiapas, and after 50 days of travel, passing through states such as Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla and the State of Mexico, arrived in Mexico City and stayed 10 days in the country’s capital.

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