Huayu News According to American Chinese website , the "immigrant caravan" gathered in the south of Mexico has finalized an agreement with the Mexican government to agree to disband their team in exchange for a visa to stay in Mexico.
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This team of thousands of immigrants recently left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula and arrived at the town of Mapastepec, both of which are located in the hot and humid coastal areas of southern Mexico. Luis Garcia, one of the caravan members, told Reuters that they reached an agreement with the Mexican government that allowed them to settle in multiple Mexican states on a pledge to no longer organize immigration caravans in the future.
The Mexican National Immigration Institute said in a statement that the government and immigrants have reached an agreement on resettlement through humanitarian visas.
Mexico also proposed that as long as immigrants stay in states where they are resettled, they can live in sanctuaries managed by the country's social welfare agency DIF.
The states where the resettlement of immigrants are concentrated in central and southern Mexico, far away from the borders of Guatemala and the United States.
This immigration team is one of two immigration caravans formed earlier this month, mainly composed of Central American and Haitian immigrants. Immigrants complain that Tapachula has basically become an open-air prison full of asylum seekers who have been blocked from leaving the poor border city.
The number of Haitian immigrants trying to enter the United States fell sharply in October, but immigration experts warned that more than 100,000 Haitian immigrants and their South American-born children are trying to enter the United States through Central America and Mexico.
In recent years, Mexico has increased immigration law enforcement and asylum efforts at the request of the Trump and Biden administrations to prevent immigrants from Central America from continuing to travel to the United States. Despite this, due to the combined impact of various factors such as the new crown epidemic, the socio-economic conditions in Central American countries and Haiti have deteriorated, and the immigration wave is expected to continue. (Original title: I won't go to the United States! The immigration caravan agrees to disband the team and accepts a Mexican visa)
