TAPACHULA: Mexico in a move to disperse migrants on its southern border with Guatemala transported thousands into adjacent towns and established a camp to ease pressure on local authorities, Western media reported on Tuesday.
The National Migration Institute (INM) said that over 8,000 migrants were moved in 189 buses and 73 vans from the southern city of Tapachula to other parts of the state of Chiapas.
National Migration Institute relocates more than 8,000 migrants
The INM said in a statement said that after the unusual buildup of migrants at the facilities of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR) in Tapachula, the National Migration Institute relocated more than 8,000 migrants.
The INM said it set up a camp for COMAR in a Tapachula park so that asylum-seekers could be speedily processed without being exposed to potential violence.
Large numbers of migrants have been crossing into the United States from Mexico in recent weeks, putting pressure on the Biden administration to stop the flow of people as the U.S. 2024 presidential election race begins.
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So many people have been taking freight trains in north of Mexico to reach the US border.
Mexico has said that it is taking measures with US to tackle the challenge of migrants.
A major step in this regard is to lesson pressure on Mexico’s northern border with the U.S. and commitments to liaise with the governments of Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela to return migrants of those nationalities expelled from the U.S.
