Migrant Caravan Resumes Journey in Mexico Amid Broken Government Promises

After being given documents restricting them to Chiapas, migrants aim for Oaxaca as U.S. pressures Mexico to stem the flow.

A migrant caravan of around 2,000 individuals has resumed its journey through southern Mexico after the Mexican government failed to deliver on its promise of providing transit or exit visas.
The migrants, originally part of a larger group of 6,000 from Venezuela, Cuba, and Central America, were given documents that restricted them to the southern state of Chiapas, instead of allowing them to travel to the U.S. border.
The caravan, which includes families and single adults, is now aiming to reach a town further up the road in Oaxaca.
U.S. officials have been pressuring Mexico to do more to block migrants at its southern border with Guatemala, or make it more difficult for them to traverse Mexico.
Mexico detected 680,000 migrants moving through the country in the first 11 months of 2023, despite an agreement in May to take in migrants turned away by the U.S.