TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Some 2,000 migrants, most Venezuelans, walked out of this southern Mexico city early Friday en masse to pressure authorities into allowing them to continue to the United States border at a time attention is focused on immigration. The latest large public exit of migrants from Tapachula follows the discovery of an abandoned semitrailer in San Antonio with more than 60 migrants inside. Following other mass movements of migrants from Tapachula last month, the Mexican government quickly negotiated to give them temporary documents. Many migrants are no longer tolerating Mexico’s strategy of confining them to the south, far from the U.S. border. The court ruling, however, was expected to have little immediate impact because the Biden administration had seldom applied the so-called Remain in Mexico policy during his presidency.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 02, 2022 08:47 UTC