A new caravan of migrants from Central America is moving to the US border

Immigration authorities report that a caravan consisting of approximately 1200 migrants from Central America and Cuba has started moving towards the US border. Before this, the caravan stopped in southern Mexico.

The National Institute for Migration stated that disparate groups of migrants were already in Mexico at the time when they decided to form a caravan. The southern city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala was chosen as a meeting place. Reuters.

Early in the morning of March 23, a large group of people moved to the town of Whischtla in the southern state of Chiapas, through which previous migrant caravans passed, heading north.

Streams of migrants moving into the United States have caused friction in U.S.-Mexico relations. President Donald Trump accused Mexican authorities of failing to curb illegal immigration. His goal is to build a border wall along the mexican border. And on this issue, Trump is unmoved: insufficient funding for the wall led first to the longest suspension of the US governmentand then to the announcement state of emergency.

The new government of the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has committed to curb the flow of migrants. It is planned to do this by regulating the movements of large groups of people. They are also planning to offer jobs and increase wages to those who want to stay in Mexico.

The Migration Institute said that in the new caravan, migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Cuba are moving to the US border.

In November, 2018, the Mayor of Tijuana, a Mexican town located on the US border, declared a state of humanitarian crisis and turned to the UN for help because of the huge influx of migrants. Then about 5000 people from Central America arrived in the country.

One month before the caravan of migrants left honduras and initially consisted approximately of 2 thousand people, later their number increased to 4 thousand. This caravan was not the first, but one of the biggest in the 2018 year. US President Donald Trump threatened Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala the termination of financial assistance if they do not stop the accession of their citizens to the caravan and their illegal advance to the territory of the United States.

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In October, it was also reported that US authorities and Mexico have agreed on a common plan to solve the problem caravan of migrants. According to this plan, which was developed over several months, Mexico turned to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with a request to establish shelters along its southern border with Central America.

In December 2018, it was reported that more 260 migrants died while trying to get into the US. This number reflects the death rate of migrants registered by border guards within their area of ​​responsibility, and does not apply exclusively to persons in US custody.

On New Year's Eve, illegal migrants who tried to cross the border between the United States and Mexico, moving from Tijuana to San Diego, dispersed with tear gas. As a result, about 100 people could not get to the United States.

In February 2019 of the year to the US border caravan arrived from 1800 migrants. Most of them had to stay in Mexico, because the US border agents in a tiny Texas town where these immigrants want to cross the border could process the documents for asylum to less than 20 migrants per day. Immigration services and immigrant detention centers are overloaded. In this regard, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that applicants applying for asylum in San Isidro will be sent back to Mexico to await decisions on their cases.

Today, 26 March, it became known that Donald Trump received $ 1 billion to build a wall to bypass Congress. The Pentagon has notified Congress that it has authorized the transfer of this amount to the construction of "pedestrian fences" along the border between the United States and Mexico in the 57 miles (91,7 km).

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