Thousands of migrants seek to reach US ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration

About 5,000 migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala set off early in the morning and rested in the town of Huehuetán, 26 km from the city of Tapachula, Mexico.

A caravan of migrants moves from Tapachula, Chiapas state (Mexico) towards the US border in late 2023. (Source: AFP/VNA)

On November 20, a caravan of up to 5,000 migrants from Central and South American countries departed from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala, in search of a way to the United States before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20, 2025. This is the sixth migrant caravan to leave the border state of Chiapas in less than two months.

The caravan, which includes people from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, set off early in the morning and took the town of Huehuetán, about 26 km from Tapachula, as a stopover. Two other groups had already left the area heading to the United States on Election Day.

These undocumented migrants fear that after Trump takes office, the US President will implement a series of measures to deport migrants and end legal immigration through the CBPOne application. Moreover, due to slow procedures, lack of jobs and increasing insecurity in Chiapas state, migrants feel safer traveling in groups to avoid becoming victims of threats such as extortion, kidnapping and abuse by criminal organizations.

According to the Mexican government , although the number of migrants detained daily at the US border has decreased by 76% since December 2023, the number of irregular migrants transiting through Mexico has reached more than 712,000 cases this year, up 193% compared to the same period last year.

This figure shows the growing challenge that the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum faces in controlling the flow of migrants and providing humanitarian assistance to them./.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/hang-nghin-nguoi-di-cu-tim-cach-den-my-truoc-ngay-ong-donald-trump-nham-chuc-post994734.vnp