Many of them waited for months in Tapachula to try to regularize their situation
Mexico transports migrants..and asylum seekers are waiting at America's border
Migrants who entered the United States after crossing the Colorado River from Mexico await help with regularization.
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Mexican officials rushed thousands of migrants from southern Mexico to other regions, while northern border states were preparing to receive asylum seekers returned from the United States, and a Reuters witness and an activist said yesterday that they saw dozens of buses heading to the city of Tapachula, Chiapas state , full of immigrants, mostly from Central America, some from Cuba and Venezuela.
Many migrants waited for months in Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, to try to regularize their immigration status, and many fled their countries due to violence and poverty in the hope of eventually claiming asylum in the United States.
The administration of US President Joe Biden said last Thursday that it would restore the Immigrant Protection Protocols, a controversial policy dating back to the era of former President Donald Trump, and that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their case is decided, and shelters located along the northern border announced that This may exceed its carrying capacity.
The first group of migrants under the program is expected to be returned to Mexico this week.
A government source, who asked not to be named, said 45 buses in Tapachula transported migrants out of the city last Saturday.
Immigrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagrane said immigration officers moved 32 migrant buses out of the city on Sunday, and another 70 the day before yesterday.
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