(2 Jan 2025)
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Tapachula, Mexico – 02 January 2025
++ NIGHT SHOTS ++
1. Various of migrants walking in a caravan
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Johana Campos, migrant from Venezuela:
"I have a disabled son who we want to help with an intervention, a special wheelchair for him, help my mother, but mostly for the help that our family group can bring to our family there who are in crisis."
3. Various of migrants passing by Mexican migration authorities
4. Various of migrants resting
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Liz Carli Colmenares, migrant from Venezuela:
"That is why (mass deportations) we want to work in Mexico City and wait and buy the tickets and return to Venezuela if he (Donald Trump) does not let us in."
6. Various of migrants sleeping in a square
7. Migrants sleeping in a park
STORYLINE:
The first migrant caravan of the year has set out from southern Mexico, heading north, but is unlikely to reach the U.S. border after authorities broke up other small caravans headed to the United States in November and December.
About 1,500 migrants — mostly from Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, and Ecuador — departed in the early hours of Thursday from Tapachula, a city near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office on January 20 with a promise of carrying out mass deportations.
Countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador are bracing for a potential influx of vulnerable migrants — a situation they are ill-prepared to handle.
Faced with threats of mass deportations, some migrants in the caravan are considering staying in Mexico.
Other small caravans had been set up after Donald Trump’s election but were broken up weeks later by Mexican authorities.
Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.
Mexican officials have said they are already making preparations if Trump follows through on his pledge to carry out large-scale deportations of migrants who lack the proper documents once he takes office on Jan. 20.
Among them is a new cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained by the U.S. immigration department, a senior official said Friday.
Mexico, like any other country, is not obligated to accept non-Mexican migrants, but it has agreed to do so in the recent past, especially from countries like Cuba and Venezuela, which often refuse deportation flights from the United States but may accept them from Mexico.
Last week, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum insisted on the United States that "repatriation be made to the various countries of origin" instead of expelling them all to Mexico.
AP Video by Raúl Mendoza
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