- 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 HERNANDEZ, SAYING: "The people want to help us (by giving rides), and even though we want to pay, the federal (police) don't want to allow them to help us even if we pay. They have a selfishness, and I don't know why." CHILDREN WAVE AS THEY WALK BY WITH THEIR FAMILY CHILD IN STROLLER ROLLS BY WOMAN GIVES CHILD DRINK, CHILD VOMITS SICK CHILD (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) 34-YEAR-OLD NICARAGUAN MIGRANT, DENIS RAMON CHAVARRIA, SAYING: "If you see this caravan of mothers that have come today, they aren't hurting anybody. Why are they picking mangoes at this time? Because we're practically out of money. We left days ago, and we don't have food or water or medicine for the children. Some now have fevers and we have walked during the night." GROUP OF MIGRANTS RESTING MIGRANTS RESTING ALONG ROADSIDE MIGRANTS WALKING WOMAN CARRYING CHILD WALKING WOMAN WALKING WITH CHILDREN AND PUSHING STROLLER
- 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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