Migrant caravan holds vigil on the southern border of Mexico to ask for their advance towards the United States.

Thousands of migrants from the largest caravan that has left Mexico’s southern border this year dedicated a vigil this Tuesday to the head of the National Migration Institute (INM), Francisco Garduño, to ask the Mexican Government to grant them documents to move forward.

“A caravan of migrants was necessary and urgent to make visible what is so visible and they don’t want to see the pain and suffering of the migrants, because the Government doesn’t want to see it,” said priest Heyman Vázquez, from the San Andrés Apóstol church, which is a few meters from the border with Guatemala.

The father of this church went to the municipality of Huixtla, where the caravan with some 7,000 migrants is, to ask that the Mexican Government “open its heart.”

“We cannot allow numbers of women and children to walk for miles and miles,” he said at the ceremony.

The priest explained that the 280 kilometers from Tapachula to the exit of the state of Chiapas are full of tired, distressed and desperate migrants.

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.

At the vigil, Guatemalan Guadalupe Morales López knelt to pray and implore the Mexican Government to grant them permission to continue their journey, especially families with children.

“The children get tired, there are pregnant women, I asked God to open his heart to them, there I was selling cheese, they threw a phone at me, they threatened me, if I didn’t give a sum of money they were going to kill me, they I decided to come because they killed my father,” the woman, who has been in the group for six days, told EFE.

The caravan of migrants prepares to leave early this Wednesday to Escuintlalocated 29 kilometers north of Huixtla.

The situation on the southern border reflects an “unprecedented” migratory flow from 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 the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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