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(NewsNation) — Sources successful Mexico archer NewsNation a caravan of migrants has conscionable taken disconnected from Tapachula, Mexico, with hundreds heading northbound to Chiapas, Mexico, connected foot.
The majority of migrants are Venezuelan, sources say. The eventual destination is reportedly Juarez, Mexico, located conscionable miles from the border, and El Paso, Texas.
It's the 10th specified caravan to signifier successful the confederate municipality since October.
According to Mexican migration authorities, they expect adjacent much of these caravans to signifier and depart successful the coming days earlier President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Trump and his "border czar," Tom Homan, person promised to transportation retired mass deportations connected a humanities scale, decrying sanctuary cities and their leaders who program to reason specified actions.
The chances of the caravan reaching the United States' confederate borderline are slim to nary arsenic Mexican migration authorities proceed to measurement up their efforts to deter and artifact migrant groups from adjacent reaching Mexico City.
Sources archer NewsNation authorities person dubbed this “Operation Carousel” and that they are breaking up migrant groups and negotiating with them to question to different Mexican states.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has addressed the issue of deportations anterior to Trump's 2nd term, making a astonishing reversal connected erstwhile argumentation promises.
Last month, Sheinbaum said Mexico would propulsion the United States to nonstop non-Mexican deportees to their countries of root — now, she's announced that Mexico is unfastened to accepting overseas nationals.
The stance displacement comes arsenic the Mexican authorities promises to unfastened 25 caller shelters to location deported migrants.
Immigration lawyer Rolando Vazquez, who chiefly represents Venezuelan nationals, said these shelters volition pb to self-deporting from Mexico.
"These overseas nationals are going to find it much desirable to beryllium successful their location state than it is to beryllium successful Mexico, and they'll yet spell backmost to their location country," Vazquez said. "And that's what we've seen successful the past successful the past Trump medication erstwhile they implemented the MPP program."
Sources successful Tijuana and Matamoros archer NewsNation they expect migrants to unreserved the borderline successful the last days earlier Trump's inauguration, arsenic they fearfulness the CBP One app volition extremity astatine that point.
