Tapachula, Chiapas; December 10, 2021.- Haitian migrants who are lining up for several kilometers long on the Tapachula bypass in order to wait for the buses used by the National Migration Institute (INM), do it so in inhuman conditions and risking their lives of being run over by trailers or vehicles that pass at high speed through that sector of the city.
Some of them who stayed on the edge of the asphalt this Friday, asked the Mexican authorities to send them buses, since they have been waiting for a week so that they could leave Chiapas and move to other Mexican states. They can not move from there because they do not want to lose their turn to leave.
There is also the fear that a traffic accident could occur at any time and become a tragedy, as happened the day before in the municipality of Chiapa de Corzo, where 53 migrants died and more than a hundred people were injured.
Just in that section of the Tapachula bypass, there are about 10,000 migrants lying on the ground. They are exposed to high temperatures and must wait until the federal authorities remember them.
Every second represents a danger, both for drivers who circulate on the highway at high speed, and for the undocumented people.
One of them told the newspaper EL ORBE that this Friday, no one immigration authority appeared to attend them, so he made a call for help because the situation has become critical
At that point on the road, throughout the week the authorities have been sending an average of 20 buses daily to take out about 900 people, but obviously they are not enough.
It is supposed that about 50,000 migrants have left by different ways to move to the northern border and other states in Mexico, searching for documents or speed up the migration processes, after they have been stranded for about two years due to many irregularities in the municipality. EL ORBE /