After resting for three days in the municipality of Pijijiapan, Chiapas, the migrants in the “Sueños sin Fronteras” caravan resumed their journey in an effort to advance toward central and northern Mexico.
The foreigners decided to regain their strength before continuing on foot, as many people were sick and suffering from injuries due to the prolonged days of travel during the nine-day journey covering nearly 150 kilometers since their departure from Tapachula last Thursday, August 20.
The group once again began walking along the coastal highway toward the municipality of Tonalá, the second-to-last locality in Chiapas before continuing into the state of Oaxaca.
Among those traveling in the caravan is Betsy, a Honduran woman who, for safety reasons, did not provide her last name. She is making the journey for the second time because she wants to reunite with her daughter, who is in the United States.
The woman said that in 2022 she crossed Mexico in pursuit of the American dream. She spent three years working until, five months ago, she was deported by the current administration of President Donald Trump.
She returned to her country, where she tried to work, but she could not get used to it and decided to head north again. She spent three and a half months in Tapachula but was unable to find employment there either because she was asked for many documents, and she received no response to her asylum request from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance.
“We have suffered injuries to our feet. There are sick people, with throat infections. Some people have turned back, while others have surrendered to immigration authorities. I am going to continue on my journey; I have a dream. I want a good, stable place and to work,” she said.
She added that she does not intend to cross into the United States immediately, but rather to remain for some time along Mexico’s northern border until Trump completes his term and “the reforms he made are reformed, so that they are not so harsh on migrants.”
The “Sueño sin Fronteras” caravan departed from Tapachula last Thursday, August 20, with approximately 600 foreigners. This is the fourth exodus attempting to leave the southern border so far this year.
Since the beginning of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration in October 2024, at least twenty groups have attempted to leave southern Mexico. Most of the groups have disbanded between Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Source: jornada
