“Look at my feet,” she said, showing blisters.

Why don’t they just give us documents so that we could get a bus or a taxi?” Padrón Molina said. “The route is too long to continue walking. 24 from the city of Tapachula and had walked about 45 miles (75 kilometers) through the heat to Escuintla in southern Chiapas state. In the past, Mexico has let such caravans go through, trusting that they would tire themselves out walking along the highway.īy Wednesday, Lazara Padrón Molina, 46, from Cuba was sick and exhausted. Mexico has assigned over 32,000 soldiers and National Guard troopers - about 11% of its total forces - to enforce immigration laws, and the National Guard now detains far more migrants than criminals.īut the shortcomings of Mexico’s effort were on display Tuesday, when National Guard members made no attempt to stop a caravan of about 6,000 migrants, many from Central America and Venezuela, from walking through Mexico’s main inland immigration inspection point in southern Chiapas state near the Guatemala border. “You had to run for your life to avoid an accident.” “They ran us out,” he said, saying migrants were given short notice to move their tents and belongings out of the way and felt intimidated by the bulldozer moving through the tents. Segismundo Doguín, the head of the local office of Mexico’s immigration agency, said, “What we are doing is removing any tents that we see are empty.”īut one Honduran migrant who would give only his first name, José, claimed some of the 200 remaining migrants had been practically forced to leave the camp late Tuesday. It once held as many as 1,500 migrants, but many tents were vacated in recent months as migrants waded across the river to reach the United States. Migrants set up the encampment in late 2022. The dismantling of the migrant encampment in Matamoros appeared to be a good-will gesture toward the United States.

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