- Title: Migrant caravan women and children press on despite difficulties
- Date: 16th April 2019
- Summary: TUZANTAN, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO (APRIL 16, 2019) (REUTERS) CARAVAN MIGRANTS WALKING MIGRANTS SEEN WALKING ALONG SIDE OF HIGHWAY MIGRANTS CARRYING ITEMS AND PUSHING STROLLERS ON HIGHWAY STROLLERS BEING PUSHED / WOMEN GATHERED AROUND MEXICAN FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER AMONG MIGRANTS MIGRANTS TALKING WITH POLICE OFFICERS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) 29-YEAR-OLD HONDURAN MIGRANT, NAYELLI
- Embargoed: 30th April 2019 18:29
- Keywords: Immigration Central America Honduras emigration asylum Nicaragua refugees migrant caravan visa border Mexico
- Location: TUZANTAN, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO
- City: TUZANTAN, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AAPNT53
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Women and children continued to make the arduous trek towards the U.S. border from southern Mexico on Tuesday (April 16).
The group were moving on foot on a highway between the towns of Huehuetan and Huiztla in Chiapas State. Women pushed strollers and rested for a while.
A Honduran migrant told Reuters that Mexican federal police were impeding passing vehicles from stopping and offering rides to migrants.
Caravans of migrants bound for the United States have sparked friction with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has accused Mexico of failing to contain illegal immigration and wants a border wall built to stop people crossing.
The new government of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to curb the migrant flows by better regulating the movement of people, and by offering job opportunities and better pay for those willing to stay.
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