2,000 migrants began a Holy Week walk in southern Mexico, aiming to draw attention to their plight and reach Mexico's capital.
2,000 migrants began a Holy Week walk in southern Mexico, traditionally demonstrating during the week before Easter to draw attention to their plight. Leaving Tapachula near the Guatemalan border at dawn, the migrants and their advocates aimed to reach Mexico's capital, highlighting the dangers they face, including robberies, sexual assaults, extortion, and kidnapping. Mexico has practiced a containment strategy in recent years, aiming to keep migrants in southern Mexico far from the U.S. border, causing migrants to languish there for months while they try to regularize their status through asylum or other means.
March 25, 2024
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