Mexico deploys a fierce operation to stop the migrant caravan from Chiapas

The Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has deployed a fierce operation this week to stop the migrant caravans that have left Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, heading north.

Hundreds of Central Americans began their journey over the weekend to seek an answer to their asylum requests.

Some have been waiting for up to two years for them to be resolved.

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• Migrants rebel in Tapachula

This Thursday, the Mexican authorities dispersed the third and last migrant caravan that left in the early morning for Mapstepec, where the last two groups arrived before being dissolved by the security forces. Throughout the week, three caravans have left Tapachula with several hundred migrants, mostly Haitians, Central Americans and Venezuelans, who were dissolved by the security forces. In all of them there have been images of migration agents chasing, cornering and even mistreating migrants. The UN has condemned the images in which two Mexican immigration agents are seen kicking a detained Haitian migrant.

Questioned on the subject, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, revealed this Thursday that next week he will send a letter to his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to insist that he address the "causes" of forced migration and offer temporary work visas for Central Americans.

"This is how I am going to raise it again with President Biden, because we cannot just be detaining, holding, we must address the causes," said López Obrador during his morning press conference at the National Palace.

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