Caravan of 2,000 migrants departs for US from southern Mexico weeks before election
Caravan of 2,000 migrants departs for US from southern Mexico weeks before election
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(20 Oct 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico - 20 October 2024 1. Various of migrants begin to walking at dawn ++DAWN SHOTS++ 2. Migrants walking ++DAWN SHOTS++ 3. Various of Josman Ramos walking with his wife 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Josman Ramos, Venezuelan migrant: "Whoever wins (in the United States election) should not close the doors to us, should give us the support we need, because we are all really going through a bad time, not just us.
Many people, we are going for a better future for our families, who are in Venezuela under a regime." 5. Josman Ramos walking with his wife 6. Various of migrants walking on the road 7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yoambriz Petón, Cuban migrant: "(Donald) Trump has xenophobia against migrants. May whoever wants to win, win. So long as Mexico gives us a hand, we will be here and we will wait here." 9. Tracking shot of migrants walking
10. Various of migrants walking along the road STORYLINE: A group of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border Sunday hoping to reach the country's north and ultimately the United States. The development comes weeks before the U.S. presidential election, in which immigration has been a key issue. "We are all really going through a bad time, not just us, many people. We are going for a better future for our families, who are in Venezuela under a regime," Venezuelan migrant Josman Ramos, said, as he appealed for the US to keep its doors open.
The lack of jobs in Mexico's south due to a new wave of incoming foreigners and a delay in asylum appointments in the U.S. have motivated more groups of migrants to leave the region in the past month. The group leaving Sunday was the third and the largest since the beginning of the administration of new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who so far has made no changes in immigration policies established by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Groups of 800 and 600 migrants left the region earlier in October. Activist Luis García Villagrán estimates about 40,000 migrants are currently stranded in southern Mexico. AP video by Raúl Salvador Mendoza