The CNDH requests protection for a new caravan of 3,700 migrants in southern Mexico

A caravan with more than 4,000 migrants demands documentation to travel to the northern border and cross into the United States

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) of Mexico has requested this Monday to the federal authorities and the state of Chiapas, bordering Guatemala, to guarantee urgent humanitarian attention to 3,700 migrants who could transit in a caravan to demand a response to their requests for refuge and asylum.

"The CNDH learned of the imminent organization and departure of more than three 3,700 people in the context of international mobility, among whom are children and pregnant women, who are located in the municipality of Tapachula due to the lack of attention from of authorities of the National Migration Institute (INM) and the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR)", the organization has indicated.

Thus, the CNDH has explained that it has received "a complaint through which it was reiterated that said group of people --originally, mainly, from Venezuela, Haiti, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Asia-- intend to go out in a caravan".

The main cause of the complaint is that "the majority have waited between three and four months for the resolution of immigration procedures so that they are given proof of application for recognition of refugee status by COMAR or, alternatively, they are issued visas by humanitarian reasons by the IN".

Likewise, the CNDH requests that "they be provided with water, moisturizing serum, hygienic and adequate food, attention by specialized medical personnel and first aid, medicines, personal hygiene supplies, among others, favoring those people who are in particular vulnerable situation".

A caravan made up of some 4,045 migrants from different countries, including Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti, left this Monday to demand from the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico the documentation to travel to the northern border and cross into the United States, as and as reported by the newspaper 'El Universal'.

The caravan left Tapachula at one in the afternoon and is made up of 4,045 people, including 624 children.

Their objective is to reach the municipality of Huixtla, some 40 kilometers away, where they hope that the migration authorities will grant them temporary permits to leave the state of Chiapas.

"We just want to get to Huixtla so that they give us the permits," stressed the spokesperson for the migrants, Alexa, as reported by the aforementioned newspaper.

"We just want to get to that city peacefully; we don't want problems or shouting, we are just asking that our human rights be respected," Alexa has sentenced.