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Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Officials Dissolve 'Migrant Caravan' Headed to US, Activists Say
2024-12-07
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Authorities in Mexico dissolved two caravans of would-be illegal immigrants colonists heading to the United States, just days after President-elect Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
warned he would levy a 25 percent tariff on imports from the country.

Migrant activists said this week that some were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers. Migrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagran said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of ''an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.''

The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height, it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, activists said.

In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the migrants colonists free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico, members of the caravan and activists said.
That doesn’t sound like they’re being sent home, or even out of Mexico, but rather just being made less visible for their next pass at the American border.
''They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,'' said Barbara Rodriguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.

The second caravan of about 1,500 migrants colonists set out on Nov. 20 and made it about 140 miles to the town of Tonala, in Chiapas state, activists say. There, authorities offered a sort of transit visa that allows travel across Mexico for 20 days.
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