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Central American migrant caravans, [1] also known as the Viacrucis del migrante ("Migrant's Way of the Cross"), [2] [3] [4] are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States.
Migrant caravans began forming in 2018, and they became a final, desperate hope for poorer migrants who do not have the money to pay smugglers. If migrants try to cross Mexico alone or in small groups, they are often either detained by authorities and sent back to southern Mexico, or worse, deported back to their home countries.
It opened two migrant shelters in the notoriously violent border state of Sonora in 2015 and 2016. The organization is notable for coordinating several high-profile migrant caravans in April 2018 and October 2018. [1] [11] These caravans, which traveled from Central America into Mexico, were the subject of widespread media coverage.
A new migrant caravan has formed in one of Central America’s most violent cities. Hundreds of people on Wednesday left San Pedro Sula in Honduras with the aim of reaching the U.S. border. Juan ...
The migrants, most from Central and South America, said they had grown tired of waiting in Mexico’s southern city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border. ... No migrant caravan has ever walked ...
Members of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Honduras have been detained in Guatemala and deported before they could reach Mexico. Though their journey was cut short, the formation of a new ...
About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti on Wednesday blocked traffic on one of Mexico's main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border.
"Traversing the Rio Suchiate: Between Africa and the U.S., an illicit river crossing in Latin America". Los Angeles Times., implies that the tested route was north along the Pacific Coast, past Acapulco and Mazatlán. This is in the references I cited and the references in Central American migrant caravans by others.