MEXICO CITY, March 26 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — A caravan of 1,500 Central American migrants arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas in Huehuetan on their passage through Mexico to the United States, confirmed a priest who runs a shelter.
The priest Heyman Vazquez Medina, director of the shelter No One Is A Foreigner, told the press the caravans left Tapachula on Saturday towards the center of Mexico and arrived in Huehuetan, after having walked 22 kilometers.
He said the group plans to move to Huixtla in the next few hours, located at about 18 kilometers off the coast of Chiapas, and most of them spent overnight in Huehuetan and assured the municipality is offering them transportation to take them to Escuintla (the next town) because it does not want them to stay here, he added.
As in the previous caravan, the priest said, neither the government nor the population is providing humanitarian aid to the migrants, men, women and children who walk on the coastal highway, he explained.
The migrants who arrived in Huixtla came to eat at the parish. The others don’t even give them water, because there is no intention of supporting them, he added.
He explained the majority of Central Americans who come in the group ‘do not want to separate but walk together and what they told me is they want to leave Huehuetan to walk at dawn because it is very hot’ ,he commented.
Hundreds of families, mothers with children, minors and adult migrants are forced to endure the waiting time for migration documents in overcrowded conditions in parks, sidewalks and in the vicinity of migratory stations and other points in Tapachula and Ciudad Hidalgo, the priest commented. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA