A caravan of nearly 2,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua set out Tuesday from southern Mexico toward the United States, hoping for a change in Washington’s migration policies after Democrats won majorities in both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections.
The caravan, named “God with us,” left San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras on Saturday and resumed its journey Tuesday afternoon from Tapachula, the main border municipality in southern Mexico, located in Chiapas state.
One migrant said: “The U.S. government knows that 19% of the Latino community is the one doing the heavy work, which is construction and hotels. So right now it has seen that this work point has dropped and I think maybe it will give us the opportunity to enter.”
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According to migrants’ accounts, their central goal is to enter the United States; some, however, intend to work temporarily in Mexico while waiting for Washington to change its policies.
Turns out all we needed was a new President!
– The Trump Administration has not released a single illegal alien into the interior for 17 consecutive months.
– FY 2026 marked the first fiscal year in US history with ZERO Border Patrol releases.
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This is the third caravan from Central America since last September. The first two were broken up at the borders with Oaxaca, where National Migration Institute authorities decided to grant them a transit document through Mexico for 30 days.
Another migrant said: “We only want a dream for our families, respect for us; we respect Mexico and Guatemala. That is the call we make as Hondurans to you, Madam President (Claudia Sheinbaum), to support us with that permit.”
Hondurans who entered Mexico over the weekend asked President Sheinbaum’s government for a transit permit to reach the northern border without walking along the Chiapas coast, an extremely exhausting journey exposed to organized crime violence and constant immigration detentions.
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