More than 10,000 migrants request visas as caravan hits Mexico
Source: Washington Post
More than 10,000 migrants request visas as caravan hits Mexico
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Sarah Kinosian January 23 at 6:49 PM
MEXICO CITY Mexico said Wednesday that more than 10,000 people have requested visas to cross its southern border as it seeks to grant legal documents to members of a rapidly growing U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Central America.
If the migrants travel together, the convoy could exceed the size of the last such caravan, which became a flash point in U.S.-Mexican relations as President Trump seized on it to argue for building a giant border wall.
But the new movement is far less organized than the last caravan. Those migrants traveled together in part to avoid arrest. The current group of migrants, in contrast, will have legal papers and may disperse.
Still, analysts said the new Mexican policy of welcoming migrants with visas marked a stark change from the past and could lead to an increase in migration and tensions with the Trump administration.
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