MEXICO CITY —
About 500 Haitians headed towards the U.S. border had been ordered off buses by Mexican immigration authorities within the northern state of Tamaulipas Friday, and a few tried to proceed the journey on foot.
Immigration brokers and Nationwide Guard officers stopped the buses at a freeway checkpoint close to the city of San Fernando, about 120 miles (200 kilometres) south of the Texas border, the state authorities mentioned in a press launch.
Mexico has turned again Haitian migrants attempting to stroll via southern Mexico. However 8,000 to 12,000 individuals, primarily Haitians, have already walked throughout the Rio Grande river and have assembled below and round a bridge within the small Texas border city of Del Rio. A few of these migrants might have already been in northern Mexico for a while.
The migrants stopped in Tamaulipas advised native media they’d boarded about 15 buses within the metropolis of Poza Rica, Veracruz, and had been headed to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, throughout the border from McAllen, Texas.
Many Haitians have utilized for asylum or refugee standing in Mexico, however they aren’t allowed to journey outdoors the state the place they made these functions. About 19,000 Haitians, many who’ve beforehand traveled via South America, have utilized for asylum or refugee standing in Mexico to this point this 12 months.
The migrants included some households with youngsters. State police automobiles accompanied the migrants a part of their stroll to keep away from accidents on the freeway.
The city of San Fernando is thought for the 2010 bloodbath of 72 migrants by the Zetas drug cartel.
Residents there provided the Haitians meals.
On Wednesday, one other group of Haitians blocked a roadway in Tamaulipas in protest after they mentioned federal authorities had been attempting to detain and deport them.
