"The largest caravan in history is coming towards us, and we are totally unprepared and doing nothing about it, " former President Trump declared Sunday in a statement issued through his Save America PAC. "Complete the wall and get tough. Our Country is being systematically destroyed before our very eyes!"
Migrants walked in the early morning, starting before dawn, to avoid the burning heat. Mainly from Honduras and El Salvador, many were accompanied by small children.
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By midday on the second day of their march, the migrants reached the town of Huehuetan, located in southern Chiapas state.
Unlike previous marches, the one that commenced Saturday from Tapachula did not include as many Haitian migrants. Thousands of Haitian migrants reached the U.S. border around Del Rio, Texas in September.
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Tens of thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Haiti are waiting in the southern city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, for refugee or asylum papers that could allow them to travel, but have grown tired of major delays in the process.
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On the first day of their march, the migrants pushed past a line of state police who were trying to block them.
There were minor scuffles, and a small child suffered a slight head wound, but the migrants continued on their way.
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They made it only a few miles to the nearby village of Alvaro Obregon on Saturday, before stopping to rest for the night, spreading out across a baseball field.
José Antonio, a migrant from Honduras who did not want to reveal his last name because he fears it could affect his case, said he had been waiting in Tapachula for two months for an answer on his request for some sort of visa.
“They told me I had to wait because the appointments were full,” recalled the construction worker. “There is no work there (in Tapachula), so out of necessity I joined this group.”
He hopes to make it to the northern city of Monterrey to find work, adding, “We’ll go on, day by day, to get as far as we can.”
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Police, immigration agents, and National Guard have broken up smaller migration attempts earlier this year.
In August, National Guard troops in riot gear blocked several hundred Haitians, Cubans, and Central Americans who walked on a highway from Tapachula.
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Mexico requires migrants applying for humanitarian visas or asylum to remain in the border state of Chiapas, next to Guatemala, for their cases to be processed.
In January, a larger caravan of migrants attempted to leave Honduras but was blocked from crossing Guatemala.
The marches are reminiscent, but nowhere near as vast as the migrant caravans that crossed Mexico in 2018 and 2019.
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