Some members of the 3,500-strong “Resettlement Stations of the Cross,” which is moving through southeast Mexico, had their lips sewn shut Tuesday as a measure of pressure and protest. put pressure on the authorities of the National Migration Institute (NIM) so that their requirements for obtaining immigration documents are met.
Among the thousands of migrants, half a dozen have sewn their lips together with a needle and thread to put pressure on the authorities to provide them with transport to travel to Mexico City, where they seek to visit the Catholic Basilica of Guadalupe, in addition, they are seeking to make it more accessible for issuing documents of legal residence .
After three days of walking to the municipality of Wixtla, about 42 kilometers from the border with Tapachula, from where they left, In this way, the migrants also expressed their solidarity with the relatives of the 40 migrants who were killed at the immigration station in Ciudad Juarez..
Maria Magdalena, a Dominican nurse who travels with this contingent, was in charge of putting on surgical gloves and using alcohol and cotton to treat the first batch of 6 out of 40 undocumented immigrants who would tie their lips to demand that the Mexican government provided them with a negotiating table, provided them with buses to transport them and provided them with documents.
With this action, the migrants of this “Via Crucis” started resistance actions and peaceful protests. Colombian Anderson Ordoñez, who spent a month and a half touring seven countries, was the first to take part in the action and said it was a measure for the Mexican government to listen to migrants.
“There are people who left for the USA by train, we do not want to risk our lives, we want help, we bring our documentsWe are not bandits, we are people who want a good future for themselves and their children,” he said.
Another of the migrants who pierced his lips with a needle and thread was Paulo Henrique, originally from Brazil, who indicated that women, children and men were traveling among this crowd of people, who were walking and could not get their documents, for this reason they joined this protest.
“We are ready to do everything necessary so that they get us a visa and we can move on, this is a form of dialogue with the Mexican government, we are doing this to see what it does with us, so that it pays attention to us. , here are the people from 11 countries that we want to move forward.”
The undocumented people who took part Tuesday afternoon came from Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia.
Meanwhile, Irineo Mujica of Pueblos Sin Fronteras assured that it is not easy for foreigners to migrate and it is not easy to see migrants being burned in prison in relation to people who died at the immigration station. in the city of Juarez.
“A state crime, it should not go unnoticed, Mexico does not represent the violence committed against 40 migrants,” he said.
The caravan reflects an unprecedented migratory flow in the region, with more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants intercepted by the United States at the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2022.
While the Mexican government reported an annual increase of more than 43% in the number of “irregulars in Mexico” in 2022 with 444,439 detected.
Source: La Opinion
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