Jose Luis Gonzalez

TAPACHULA (Mexico) – Several thousand Haitian migrants are occupying a spot in Tapachula’s stadium. They want to be allowed to leave Mexico for work and travel free through Mexico.

After lengthy delays in Tapachula for visas and asylum, Mexican officials began to move hundreds of migrants into other states last week. This was to stop migrants from heading to the U.S. borders.

Yet thousands more people remain in limbo https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/this-is-prison-mexico-struggles-hold-migrants-far-us-border-2021-09-21 in Tapachula, which is located near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala.

On Wednesday, many people told Reuters that they had been camping at the stadium to get on buses to other parts of town.

Mexico’s Migration Institute did not respond immediately to my request for comment.

Eliot John from Haiti said that he had slept in the camp many nights and couldn’t leave. “We don’t want the caravan to be a danger because we have children and pregnant women in it.

Reuters photos shows a ramshackle encampment consisting of blankets hung from metal fences on a concrete lot. The area is directly under direct sunlight, and trash scattered about.

Numerous migrants were seen sitting on grass and in the spectator seats inside the stadium.

Roldy from Haiti, a migrant, asked not to reveal his last name. Roldy said that he’s been living in Tapachula since four months. The last five nights he spent outside Tapachula with his wife, daughter, and son.

He said, “My family can’t continue to put up with hunger, thirst, and sleeping on streets.”

Marceline Pierre also hails from Haiti and begged Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican president, to notice the unsafe conditions in Mexico and to help him and other migrants obtain paperwork that allows them to freely move through the country to find work.

He said, “We are not animals.”