They have asked the government of Mexico to provide buses through a humanitarian corridor to ensure safe travel and prevent tragedies like the one in Texas. Médecins Sans Frontières is calling for more humanitarian aid in the area, given the “distressing situation” of this population.
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A caravan of migrants on Mexico’s southern border has demanded: conditions for safe travel and avoid a tragedy like the one in Texas, United States, where 53 migrants have died since Monday after being overcrowded in a trailer.
The caravan of thousands of migrants set to leave Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, this Friday, has asked the Mexican government for buses through a humanitarian corridor that it reaches Nuevo León, a state bordering the United States; They have even been willing to pay for the fuel of the buses, in order to avoid more risks during transport.
Migrants have indicated that they have with them 400 pregnant women and 1,000 children They will travel along the coastal road to reach the immigration customs office in Huixtla, Chiapas. They estimate that some 8,000 people from countries like Venezuela and Haiti, regions like Africa and Asia, and even Mexicans wanting to enter the United States could walk in this new exodus.
“We ask the Mexican authorities to protect us on the highways and to always accompany us because it is a peaceful caravan march,” said Jonathan Enrique Ávila, a migrant from Venezuela.
In the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, the main place of origin of the caravans, the migrants concentrate to leave on foot, as they did not find the agility in their procedures to obtain their temporary travel permits.
Other groups of migrants have submitted their IDs to the regularization offices of the National Migration Institute (INM), relying on being able to obtain temporary 30-day permits to travel through the national territory and not be part of this migrant caravan.
Doctors Without Borders denounces the “disturbing” situation
The organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has urged to improve humanitarian aid on Mexico’s northern border for migrants waiting to enter the United States before they “a distressing situation” for this population.
Médecins Sans Frontières has pointed out that the medical and psychological consultations offered to migrants stranded in northern Mexico point to conditions related to musculoskeletal disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory diseases, urinary tract infections, gynecological diseases, skin infections and decompensation due to chronic conditions.
The organization has explained that symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, grief or loss, and depression are predominant.
“At MSF, we are calling on authorities at all levels and other international humanitarian aid organizations in the region to redouble their efforts to ensure decent conditions for the migrant population on the northern border,” said Pavel Goytia, head of the medical service at Doctors Without Borders. . team in Nuevo Laredo.
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