Migrants answer Joe's call: First caravan sets off from Mexico bound for the US after Biden revealed he would end Title 42 on May 23 amid fears the army will be needed to control the flood:
Hundreds of migrants who have been stranded in Tapachula, Mexico for weeks said they are planning to set off to the U.S. in a caravan on Friday after Joe Biden announced he would end the Trump-era policy that allowed instant expulsion of asylum-seekers at the U.S. southern border on May 23.
Video of migrants at a refugee camp in the city near the Mexican-Guatemalan border captured the moment the migrants called on the Mexican government for aid and announced their plan to travel.
'Mexico, tend to your migrants,' a migrant says through a megaphone. 'That's the only thing we're asking, and to the people of Tapachula, thank you for supporting us.'
'Fellow migrants, we're leaving Tapachula very early on Friday.'
It comes as the White House admitted there will be an 'influx' of border crossers when Title 42 ends while border authorities plead with the Pentagon to provide aid and mobilize the army to handle the incoming flood of migrants.
Immigration groups have been pushing for an end to Title 42, which was enacted by former President Donald Trump but was continued and upheld in court by Biden.
The order was put in place in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic as the spread of coronavirus ran rampant at crowded border facilities.
Since then, more than a million migrants apprehended at the border have been rapidly expelled to Mexico or other countries, often within hours of being caught under the Title 42. --->READ MORE HERE
Migrants march from southern Mexico as Biden lifts COVID ban:
Some 500 migrants from Central America, Venezuela and elsewhere pushed past police and National Guard lines in southern Mexico Friday in one of the first such marches this year.
The migrants described the march as a traditional annual protest related to Holy Week, and those at the front carried a white cross, as others have done in previous years.
However, this year the protest came two weeks early and some participants said they would go far beyond the usual short march and try to reach the U.S. border.
And in a clash with National Guard officers and immigration agents, the migrants used the cross they were carrying as a battering ram to break through the Guard lines, shattering the wooden cross.
The officers, who had riot shields, batons and what appeared to be an irritant spray, detained some marchers, but many others ran past them. --->READ MORE HERE
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