After a week of walking north from the border city of Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico, the latest migrant caravan hoping to escape the Mexico-Guatemala border region has been reduced from around 1,000 to about 700. The group is the second to depart the region this year, hoping to reach Mexico City and parts farther north, where jobs are more plentiful.
According to a report in La Jornada, the group of migrants who formed a caravan they call “David” has reached Pijijiapan, Chiapas, after walking 150 kilometers during the first week of their trek. The slightly more than 90-mile jaunt has taken its toll on some of the mostly Haitian migrants as temperatures remain consistently in the high nineties Fahrenheit.
According to La Jornada, the group has been reduced from 1,000 to 700 as many have opted to turn themselves in to Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) and face immediate
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