A caravan of about 2,500 illegal migrants left the southern Mexico city of Tapachula Tuesday morning. The group was escorted out of town by police as they embarked on a journey northward toward Mexico City. In the nation’s capital, they are expected to disband and individually and in small groups seek further transportation on buses, commercial flights, and so on.
A representative of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute told Breitbart News that the migrants had been holed up in the surrounding area for months, awaiting appointments through the Biden-Harris administration’s CBP One app. Arrangements made through that app enable otherwise illegal migrants to cross the US border and remain in the US without fear of deportation.
Migrants entering Mexico from the south are required to request a temporary permit to travel through the country on their way to the US border. The impending change of government in Washington has alerted the migrants to trek north now so that they arrive at the border before January 20, when former President Trump again takes charge.
Just this week, before Tuesday’s election results, Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, criticized Trump over his threats to impose tariffs if the country does not stop the illegal traffic through its territory. Stay tuned.
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