Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

Mexico: Apna Punjab Media: Hundreds of migrants from about a dozen countries set out on foot from Mexico’s southern border, trying to reach the US border. Some members of the group said they hope to reach the US border before the election in November, because they fear that if Donald Trump wins, he will follow through on his promise to close the border to asylum seekers.

“We are taking the risk that the permit (to cross the border) could be stopped,” said Miguel Salazar, an immigrant from El Salvador. They fear the new Trump administration could stop hiring immigrants through CBP One Asylum seekers enter the U.S. legally by obtaining appointments at U.S. border crossings, where they present their cases to authorities.

In recent years migrants attempting to pass through Mexico have organized into larger groups to reduce the risk of being attacked by gangs during the journey or stopped by Mexican immigration officials. But in southern Mexico the caravans break up, as people become tired from walking hundreds of miles (kilometres). Mexico recently made it more difficult for migrants to reach the US border by bus and train. Travel permits are rarely issued to migrants entering the country without visas, and thousands of migrants have been detained by immigration authorities at checkpoints in the center and north of Mexico and deported to cities in the south of the country. Has been given.