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Central American migrants through Mexico
The Mexico-United States migratory corridor is the largest in the world (IOM, 2018).
The displacements of Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans through Mexico to reach the United States have marked the migratory dynamics in Mesoamerica for more than 30 years.
In the last decade, these irregular migratory movements to the United States have occurred in a context of increased insecurity and, therefore, greater vulnerability of migrants in the face of threats of extortion, assault, rape, kidnapping and even homicide, among other. This situation has been accentuated and aggravated by the increase in violence in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as by the increasing hardening of border control in the southern United States and the retention of undocumented migrants by the Mexican government throughout the country (ITAM).
In these days a caravan has spend a month on the road, after gruelling walks across Mexico’s southwest. An estimated of 8,000 people are traveling through Mexico in order to reach the United States border; this caravan began as a single group, but it now has been fragmented in small groups. Migrants are now seeking to move faster but they hasn't lost their goal to the north border.
In anticipation of the Honduran migrant caravan crossing the United States-Mexico border, President Donald Trump ordered 5,600 troops to the border.
Most of the troops are in Texas the southern border's most heavily trafficked section. Others are spread along other sectors in California and Arizona.
My plan is to document the journey of the caravan to the United States border and to find the stories of the migrants that will help us to understand their motives. I also plan to go to Honduras or El Salvador to meet the families that these migrants left behind.
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