Huixtla (Mexico), Apr 25 (EFE).- Some members of the “migrant Stations of the Cross”, which is advancing through southeastern Mexico made up of 3,500 people, sutured their lips this Tuesday as a measure of pressure and protest to put pressure on the authorities National Institute of Migration (INM) so that their demands to obtain immigration documents are met.
Among the thousands of migrants, half a dozen sewed their lips together with a needle and thread to pressure the authorities to provide them with transportation on their journey to Mexico City, where they seek to visit the Catholic Basilica of Guadalupe, in addition to seeking more accessible for this issuance of legal stay documents.
After three days of walking to the municipality of Huixtla, some 42 kilometers away from the Tapachula border, from where they left, the migrants also expressed their solidarity with the relatives of the 40 migrants killed in an immigration station in Ciudad Juarez.
María Magdalena, a nurse from the Dominican Republic and who travels in this contingent, was in charge of putting on surgical gloves and using alcohol and cotton to heal the first group of 6 migrants out of 40 undocumented immigrants who will sew their lips together to demand that the Mexican Government, provide them with a dialogue table, provide them with buses for their transfer and provide them with documents.
With this action, the migrants of this “Viacrucis” began the acts of resistance and peaceful protests
The Colombian Anderson Ordoñez, who has spent a month and a half touring seven countries, was the first to participate in this action and said that it was a measure for the Mexican government to listen to migrants.
“There are people who have gone to the United States, by train, we do not want to risk our lives, we want them to help us, we bring our documentation, we are not thugs, we are people who want a good future for ourselves and our children,” exposed.
Another of the migrants who pierced his lips with a needle and thread was Paulo Henrique, originally from Brazil, who pointed out that among this crowd of people travel women, children and men who have walked and have not been able to get their documents, for this reason, they joined this protest.
“We are willing to do what is necessary so that they get us the visa and we can move on, it is a form of dialogue with the Mexican Government, we do this to see what it does with us, that it pays attention to us, here are people over 11 nations that we want to move forward.”
The undocumented people who participated this Tuesday afternoon are from the nations of Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia.
Meanwhile, Irineo Mujica, from the organization Pueblos Sin Fronteras, assured that it is not easy for foreigners to migrate and it is not easy to see how migrants are burned in a jail, in relation to the people who lost their lives in an immigration station in Juarez City.
“A state crime, it should not go unnoticed, Mexico does not represent this violence perpetrated against 40 migrants,” he said.
The caravan reflects the unprecedented migratory flow in the region with more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants intercepted by the United States at the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2022.
While the Mexican Government reported an annual increase of more than 43% in the number of “irregular people in Mexico” in 2022, when it detected 444,439.
