Caravan migrants rest in Mexico City, say will not leave until police, human rights groups accompany them north
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1363391
Caravan migrants rest in Mexico City, say will not leave until police, human rights groups accompany them north
- Title: Caravan migrants rest in Mexico City, say will not leave until police, human rights groups accompany them north
- Date: 7th November 2018
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (NOVEMBER 7, 2018) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS CROSSING STREET CLOSE TO SPORTS COMPLEX / HELPED BY POLICE MIGRANTS SITTING IN CDMX (ABREVIATION OF 'MEXICO CITY') FIGURE WOMAN HANDING OUT COFFEE TO MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS IN TENTS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HONDURAN MIGRANT, JUAN CARLOS, SAYING: "A lot of us are waiting for everyone to come to an agreement in order to be able to continue because we can't leave, just like that, if we are not accompanied by police, human rights groups. We understand this situation and we have to wait until they (organisers) say: 'Let's all leave today.'" MIGRANTS GATHERED TALKING MAN SHOWING LIST (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HONDURAN MIGRANT, JUAN CARLOS, SAYING: "Nicaraguans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans are travelling in the caravan. This list only includes Hondurans who want to do things right, who want to reach the border and not get there to throw rocks." GENERAL OF SPORTS COMPLEX WOMAN FROM THE RED CROSS HELPING TO TREAT MIGRANTS MEMBERS FROM REFUGEE AGENCY HELPING MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS AT SHELTER
- Embargoed: 21st November 2018 19:20
- Keywords: Mexico migrants caravan Mexico City Trump
- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA00195ICI13
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants travelling through Mexico remained in the capital on Wednesday (November 7) after a 1,000 mile (1,600 km) journey, with some saying they will not move until the police, human rights groups accompany them up north.
Officials estimated 4,500 migrants were camped in a Mexico City sports stadium, dirty and exhausted after a journey through the violence-plagued state of Veracruz this week.
"A lot of us are waiting for everyone to come to an agreement in order to be able to continue because we can't leave, just like that, if we are not accompanied by police, human rights groups. We understand this situation and we have to wait until they (organisers) say: 'Let's all leave today,'" said Honduran migrant, Juan Carlos.
Their arrival in the Mexican capital was a measure of the migrants' tenacity despite attempts by four governments - Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States - to break them up.
Mexico City's human rights ombudsman said some 4,500 migrants had arrived at the stadium by Tuesday morning, although around 6,500 have left the caravan and returned home to Honduras, according to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Since it set off from one of the world's most violent cities, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Oct. 13, the caravan has met intermittent police resistance at the Honduran border with Guatemala, on a bridge connecting Guatemala to Mexico, and at the crossing point between the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Some former members of the caravan said they were deported back to Honduras after it fragmented into smaller groups in southern Mexico.
He said Mexican immigration authorities had stopped him, along with about 150 others, on Saturday morning aboard two truck trailers headed to Mexico City.
Mexico's interior ministry denied the government was deporting caravan members. It said 478 of them had voluntarily agreed to return home. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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