Caravan migrants rest at Mexico City shelter

Record ID: 1363083

  • Title: Caravan migrants rest at Mexico City shelter
  • Date: 6th November 2018
  • Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (NOVEMBER 05, 2018) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS ARRIVING AT TEMPORARY SHELTER AT MEXICO CITY'S MAGDALENA MIXHUCA SPORTS COMPLEX GENERAL VIEW, MIGRANTS AT SHELTER VARIOUS, MIGRANTS RESTING IN SHELTER VARIOUS, PEOPLE SETTING UP TARPS AND BLANKETS TO REST OUTSIDE MIGRANTS RESTING BY TENT (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) 42 YEAR-OLD HONDURAN MIGRANT, LEDIN ROJAS, SAYING: "We don't know how long they'll have us here, the leaders that brought us. And, hopefully the government has a conscience and doesn't deport us later." GENERAL VIEW, SHELTERS FOR MIGRANTS AT SPORTS COMPLEX VARIOUS, MEDICAL SERVICE PERSONNEL WITH MIGRANTS VARIOUS, MIGRANTS RESTING ON STANDS AT SPORTS COMPLEX USED AS TEMPORARY SHELTER (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) 32 YEAR-OLD HONDURAN MIGRANT, JUAN CARLOS, SAYING: "We're arriving very tired, drowned, sick. We left Chiapas (state) where it is very hot and went to Veracruz (state) where it is cooler, we ran into storms, and we got sick. Up to now there's no plan, the plan is to get up in the morning and find the strength to find out what the people really want to do. It's not what I want, it's what the people, the mothers and children decide, fundamentally." PEOPLE PROVIDING FOOD TO MIGRANTS MIGRANTS EATING GENERAL VIEW, TENT WHERE MIGRANTS RECEIVE FOOD
  • Embargoed: 20th November 2018 03:15
  • Keywords: migrant caravan immigration emigration asylum refugees Mexico shelter
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00195DAB7R
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Central American migrants from a caravan traveling through Mexico towards the United States rested on Monday (November 05) at a temporary shelter at a sports stadium in Mexico City.
    More than 1,000 Central Americans, many fleeing gang violence and financial hardship in their home countries arrived at the stadium on Sunday (November 04) where the city government set up medical aid and food kitchens.
    Ahead of U.S. congressional elections this Tuesday (November 06), President Donald Trump has warned repeatedly about the advance of the caravan and ordered thousands of troops to the Mexican border, where units strung up razor wire this weekend.
    The migrants arrived in the capital, nearly 500 miles (805 kilometres) from the closest border crossings in Texas, four weeks after setting out from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
    "We're arriving very tired, drowned, sick. We left Chiapas (state) where it is very hot and went to Veracruz (state) where it is cooler, we ran into storms, and we got sick." said 32 year-old Honduran migrant, Juan Carlos.
    Thousands more Central Americans were moving in groups in the Gulf state of Veracruz, the central state of Puebla and in the southern state of Chiapas, local media reported.
    The U.S. government has pressured Mexico to halt the advance of the migrants and President Enrique Pena Nieto has offered temporary identification papers and jobs if they register for asylum in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
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