Mexico: a column of migrants disperses after clashes with the police

Clashes between migrants and law enforcement in the city of Tapachula, southern Mexico, on April 1, 2022. AP - Edgar H. Clemente

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A caravan of migrants heading for the United States has dispersed after clashes with police.

They had left the town of Tapachula, in southern Mexico.

The Mexican authorities finally agreed to facilitate their immigration procedures.

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The column of migrants from Tapachula in the south of the country finally dispersed.

Tired of waiting in what they call "

", the migrants had set off and on Friday April 1, violent clashes had broken out with Mexican security forces in Tapachula, in southern Mexico. , Friday, April 1. 

Slowness

For activist Luis Garcia Villagran, who accompanied the group of migrants, it was the Mexican authorities themselves who had agreed to transfer 200 people from Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Nicaragua - to the southern states of Mexico in order to to proceed with the administrative procedures for immigration to the United States.

The caravan would therefore have formed because of the delays of the immigration services. 

Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM)

urged the group of migrants not to "

".

Number travel

The administration of US President Joe Biden announced on May 23 that it would end the policy of immediately deporting migrants on the grounds of protecting the country against the coronavirus pandemic.

For years, columns of migrants fleeing poverty and violence at home have crossed Mexico to reach the border with the United States.

By paying smugglers, they use the fact of traveling in large numbers as a guarantee of security. 

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