On Wednesday, many others began marching from the city of northern Honduras to the border with Guatemala, testing a well-marked migration route.
Calls for a new migrant caravan from San Pedro Sula bus station had been circulating on social media for weeks.
The caravan arrives just two weeks after Guatemala reopened its borders after keeping them sealed for months to curb COVID-19.
Most of those who piled up on Wednesday left in the afternoon with backpacks and masks.
The groups stretched along the way, with some hot walks, while others walked towards the border.
The governments in it have indicated that they are monitoring.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute said in a statement that it would impose a “safe, orderly and legal” migration and that it would do nothing to publicize the formation of a caravan of migrants.
The U. S. Embassy in Honduras wrote on Twitter that migration to the United States is more complicated than ever and more harmful because of the virus.
However, the tensions that drove Central American migrants did not diminish the pandemic.
The lack of employment and the struggle of families to put food on the table has worsened.
The International Labour Organization said that at least 34 million jobs had been lost in Latin America as a result of the pandemic.
The UN firm ranks Latin America and the Caribbean as the most affected region globally in terms of lost working hours, with a 20. 9% drop in the first 3 quarters of this year.
The flow of American migrants from Central America significantly slowed the pandemic, and countries in the region ended their borders.
Most migrant shelters along northern Mexico’s major roads have closed their doors to newcomers as they tried to prevent the virus from spreading to vulnerable migrant populations.
Mexico and the United States have returned many others to their home countries in an attempt to empty detention facilities.
Mexico has to send stranded asylum seekers on its northern border to the south.
Mexico has given migrants the opportunity to apply for asylum there, but many are hunting the United States.