TAPACHULA, Mexico — Hundreds of migrants set off early Friday from Mexico’s southern border to embark on an adventure north of the U. S. -Mexico border, where many more are stranded following a deal to deport Venezuelan migrants crossing into the United States.
The organization of others left around four in the morning from the city of Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, in the direction of San Pedro Tapanatepec in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where migrants can unload leaves to cross the country.
A migration official put the total number of migrants at 500, mostly Venezuelans, local media reported the organization at more than 1,000.
Some two hundred migrants remained in Tapachula.
Also on Friday, about three hundred Venezuelan migrants piled up in the northern Mexican border city of Matamoros, seeking to cross the Matamoros-Brownsville bridge into Texas.
Some migrants chained themselves in protest and painted themselves white in a symbolic gesture of peace.
Washington on Wednesday announced a plan to provide humanitarian assistance to the United States to up to 24,000 Venezuelans entering the country by air and with a U. S. -based sponsor.
The deal with Mexico, announced as many Venezuelans traveled to the U. S. -Mexico border, the U. S. government deported Venezuelans caught crossing the border into Mexico.
The number of Venezuelan migrants caught crossing the U. S. -Mexico borderThe U. S. and Mexico trade has increased this year. Record numbers of migrants from around the world have crossed a harmful swath of Panamanian jungle known as the Darien Gap to succeed in the United States.
Collaborator: Fidel Velázquez