(30 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tecun Uman, Guatemala – 28 October 2024
1. Various aerials of migrants crossing Suchiate River between Guatemala and Mexico ++ MUTE ++
2. Salvadorean migrants arriving at dock to cross into Mexico
3. Migrants getting on raft
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – 28 October 2024
4. Military patrolling river shore
5. Luis Alonso Valle and wife getting off raft
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Alonso Valle, migrant from Honduras:
"The U.S. election is coming up, so we are afraid that we won’t be able to apply (for asylum)."
7. Valle family walking down street
8. Valle family getting on van
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – 27 October 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Venezuelan migrants, anonymized for security reasons:
"When they saw us, they put us in a van and took us to a farm. There we were met by armed people and more than 500 people were being held."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – 28 October 2024
10. Valle family in street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – 28 October 2024
11. Ciudad Hidalgo Mayor’s Office headquarters
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Elmer Vázquez, mayor of Ciudad Hidalgo:
"We have never had any situation of violence against our migrant brothers and sisters. Never. Not here in our municipality."
13. Various of priest and activist Heyman Vázquez holding mass
14. People attending mass
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Heyman Vázquez, priest and human rights activist:
"I think this is the worst time. There is terrible violence against migrants and there is nothing we can do."
16. Migrant receiving food
17. Church exterior
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Heyman Vázquez, priest and human rights activist:
"They (authorities) are not doing anything because they are in collusion with criminals, because criminals act openly here in Suchiate. They openly take the migrants they want and nobody knows where."
19. Migrants eating
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – 27 October 2024
++ NIGHT SHOTS ++
20. Various of military patrolling street
21. Migrants sleeping on square
STORYLINE:
Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have reached a four-year low, but days before the U.S. election, in which immigration is a key issue, migrants continue pouring into Mexico.
Mexican immigration agents encountered 925,000 undocumented migrants through August of this year, well above last year’s annual total and triple the 2021 total.
While U.S. authorities give much of the credit to their Mexican counterparts for stemming the flow to their shared border, organized crime maintains stricter control of who moves here than the handful of federal agents and National Guardsmen standing by the Suchiate River dividing Guatemala and Mexico.
On Monday morning, Luis Alonso Valle, a 43-year-old Honduran traveling with his wife and two children, climbed off a makeshift raft that had carried them across the Suchiate.
They hadn’t made it 50 yards toward Ciudad Hidalgo before three men approached on a motorcycle to tell them they couldn’t keep walking unless they paid.
Once the payment of about $100 is made, migrants’ photos are taken and their skin stamped.
Gunmen stop vans and taxis headed out of the city and check for the stamps, and those without them are sent back.
Organized crime’s strict control at Mexico’s southern border tracks with the growing violence generated by the struggle between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
Migrants have become the most lucrative commodity, according to experts.
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