MEXICO CITY: - A migrant caravan that had been travelling through southern Mexico for 17 days resumed its journey on Tuesday in the state of Oaxaca, opting to bypass Mexico City and head straight for the US border. In a video posted on social media and cited by local media, Irineo Mujica, the director of the immigrant rights organisation Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) and a leader of the caravan, said that the caravan will no longer travel first to Mexico City, as planned.
Migrants will instead travel to the northern state of Sonora, which borders the US state of Arizona, in line with a bilateral decision this week to resume non-essential travel between the two countries, though only for documented travellers. Mujica predicted that another caravan would arrive in ten days and urged migrants in other parts of southern Mexico to join the journey to the US border.
The caravan of 4,000 migrants, mostly from Central America and Haiti, set out on October 23 from Tapachula, Guatemala, with the goal of reaching Mexico City and resolving their immigration status before proceeding to the US border.
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