Migrant caravan blocks road in Chiapas, Mexico, to demand their advance towards the United States.

Thousands of migrants from the largest caravan that has left Mexico’s southern border this year blocked a highway guarded by the National Guard (GN) this Wednesday to demand free transit.

After advancing about 10 kilometers near the Huixtla customs office, in the border state of Chiapas, the group of nearly 7,000 people blocked the four lanes of federal highway 200 to demand documents that allow them to advance to the north of the country.

The foreigners stood with leaves with their faces of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Shouting “we want papers, we want papers,” they sought to put pressure on the National Immigration Institute (INM) while members of the National Guard with riot gear went through patrols to guard customs.

The Honduran Yovani Marroquín indicated that search for documentsbut not having a response from the INM, they resort to blockades and peaceful demonstrations.

“We are only looking for a job opportunity, we are not looking for vandalism or things outside the law, but rather a job opportunity, we ask for it in the name of God,” he told EFE.

The caravan of thousands of migrants left last week as the largest of the year from Tapachula, on the southern border of Mexico, where it has resisted and advanced unlike others carried out in previous months that disintegrated after a few days.

Jonathan Andino, also from Honduras, had been in Tapachula for more than six months waiting for an immigration procedure, but he joined this caravan because his resources ran out.

“We do not want to risk being detained by Immigration or kidnapped”We only want free traffic to circulate,” said the young Central American, who was dedicated to construction, but left it due to crime.

Other migrants abandoned the protest to continue walking on their own along the highway in search of reaching Escuintla, the next destination.

After four hours of road blockade, a group of migrants and Irineo Mujica Arzate, from the Pueblos Sin Frontera organization, spoke with Huixtla Immigration officials.

The general coordinator of the Center for Human Dignification, Luis Rey García Villagrán, stated that There are at least 2,000 children in the caravan.

“They are the poorest migrants, of whom the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says, we must look after the poor first,” asked the activist, who accompanies the caravan.

The situation on the southern border reflects an “unprecedented” migratory flow of the region, as warned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with up to 16,000 migrants arriving at Mexico’s borders a day, according to López Obrador.

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