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"We Don't Want to Go to the u.s." Migrant Caravan Seeks to Settle in Mexico, but Bureaucracy Puts up Another Barrier.

About 1,000 mostly Cuban migrants face corruption and delays in Mexico's refugee system while shifting their goal to settling in Mexico City due to U.S. anti-immigration policies.

  • About 1,000 migrants, mostly Cubans, left Tapachula, Mexico on October 1 seeking to settle in Mexico City rather than enter the United States.
  • They departed due to long waits for asylum paperwork, paying up to 20,000 pesos, and shrinking migration flows since Trump took office in January 2017.
  • Migrants endure a difficult 1,100-kilometer trek north facing extreme weather, food and water shortages, and risks from crime while aiming to regularize their status.
  • Activists report the southern border migration dropped up to 80%, and migrants emphasize, “They don't want us in the United States” while insisting, “I want to stay here.”
  • The caravan highlights migrants’ shift to settling in Mexico due to U.S. policies, but bureaucratic delays and costs pose ongoing barriers to legal status there.
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Tapachula, Chis., A new migrant caravan, made up of some 1,000 foreigners, left this border city with Guatemala yesterday, protesting the lack of job opportunities and response to their asylum requests, even though they have been in the process for months, before the Mexican Refugee Aid Commission.

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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español Vladimir Ortiz Cassola, a 24-year-old Cuban, joined the caravan of more than 580 migrants that left Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico, for Mexico City this Wednesday. They are not seeking to cross the northern border. They do not want to reach the United States. What they are asking for, he tells CNN, is to be able to legally establish themselves in Mexico, work, and rebuild their lives. “The United State…

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On their second day of walking, the members of the migrant caravan advance through the municipality of Huixtla, in Chiapas, on their way to Mexico City, where they seek to process the refugee status document in Mexico.The contingent left early on Wednesday morning from Tapachula, Chiapas, and continues its way through Mexico, escorted by a patrol of the National Guard of Roads and the State Police.The about 1,000 migrants walk on the coastal roa…

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The group heads to Mexico City and calls for support from the authorities to regularize their immigration status

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TV Azteca broke the news in on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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