Venezuelan migrants protest against deportation in Tapachula

Record ID: 1969589

  • Title: Venezuelan migrants protest against deportation in Tapachula
  • Date: 15th April 2025
  • Summary: Venezuelan migrants protest against deportation in Tapachula SHOTLIST TAPACHULA, MEXICO (APRIL 14, 2024) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS HOLDING BANNER 2. (SOUNBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN MIGRANT OSCAR ROJAS, SAYING: “We ask President Nicolas Maduro to help us with the humanitarian flights, which have not taken into account either Tapachula or Tuxtla Gutierrez, all the flights that have arrived only in Mexico City. We also need your support and in the United States too.” 3. (SOUNBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN MIGRANT TAIRE AGUILAR, SAYING: “We are a group of migrants here raising our voices so that our President Nicolas Maduro activates humanitarian flights as soon as possible. We have been waiting for humanitarian flights for more than four months, here in immigration they have been very kind to us, but they tell us that we must wait for the authorization of our president Nicolas Maduro to activate the flights” 4. VARIOUS OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS HOLDING BANNER AND CHANTING SLOGAN 5. (SOUNBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN MIGRANT GRETA GUEVARA, SAYING: “That was the goal, but with the new regulations of the Trump administration, we are no longer going to be able to go up, we are not going to be able to enter, that is impossible and being here it is even more impossible” 6. VARIOUS OF MIGRANT ACCOMMODATION BUILDING 7. (SOUNBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN MIGRANT EVARISTA SOTO, SAYING: “My goal and plan after having left Venezuela to reach the United States, but due to the president's circumstances we could not pass to the United States and we stayed here in Tapachula” SCRIPT Venezuelan migrants protest to be deported after being unable to reach the United States, in Tapachula, Mexico, on Monday, April 14. Venezuelan migrants are protesting in search of deportation flights that will take them back to their home country after being unable to reach the United States due to Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies. According to reports from the Venezuelan community in the southeastern city of Tapachula, at least 2,000 people are seeking to return from southern Mexico to Venezuela.
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