Around
2,000 migrants have begun making their way from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula toward the United States, hoping, according to local news
reports, to reach the border before President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term.Footage from Juan Manuel Perez Blanco shows the migrants in a Tapachula city park in the early hours of January 2. Luis Rey Garcia Villagran, director of the migrant support group
Centro de Dignificacion Humana, can be
seen speaking to them.According to
El Universal, the migrant caravan is largely made up of people from Venezuela, Haiti, Peru, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Colombia.Perez Blanco said the group were traveling “against the clock before the inauguration” on January 20. Credit: Juan Manuel Perez Blanco via Storyful