Migrants head for Mexico City in mass mission to reach US border
A BIG group of Central Americans pushed on toward Mexico City yesterday from the Mexican coast as they continued their long journey towards the United States border.
At a gymnasium in Cordoba, about 1,000 members of a migrant caravan that has been moving northward through Mexico voted to try to get to the capital yesterday by walking and hitching rides.
Cordoba is 178 miles from Mexico City by the shortest route, which would be the group’s longest single-day journey yet since they began more than three weeks ago.
A few hundred others had already arrived at a large outdoor sports area in the capital.
City employees gave hot food tor the migrants, some of whom had gone on freight trucks to reach the capital.
The migrant caravan reached Cordoba after a 124-mile trek through Veracruz, a state where hundreds of migrants have disappeared in recent years, falling prey to kidnappers.
The estimated 4,000 migrants in Veracruz are still hundreds of miles from the nearest US border point.
They hope to regroup in the Mexico City, seeking medical care and rest while awaiting stragglers.
Other migrants who had moved out ahead of the main body rested at a church in Puebla, a city roughly midway between Cordoba and Mexico City.
It is unclear what part of the US border the caravan will aim for eventually.
Most of the migrants said they remain convinced that travelling together is their best hope for reaching the US.