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Pueblos Sin Fronteras

(Abstracted and edited from Buzzfeed)  A group called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders has organized hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men . The hope is that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them. So far the crowd has boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police.

Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

The irony of this march occuring to Passove.

“If we all protect each other we’ll get through this together,” an organizer  yelled through a loudspeaker on the morning they left Tapachula, on Mexico’s border with Guatemala, for the nearly month long trek.
Alex Mensing, another organizer with Pueblos Sin Fronteras, made that point clear to the migrants before the group started out. He also stressed that everyone is responsible for their own food, water, and payment for vans or buses. Still, it’s far cheaper than being assaulted or falling into the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.

“I’m here to work together with the people who had to leave their countries for whatever reason,” Mensing said through a loudspeaker. “We’re fighting together. We’re not here to give anyone papers and we’re not here to give anyone food.”

Mensing said Pueblos Sin Fronteras isn’t calling on people to make the trek, but if they’re going to try to go through Mexico on the way to the United States, the group will help them.

When they get to the US, they hope American authorities will grant them asylum or, for some, be absent when they attempt to cross the border illegally. More likely is that it will set up an enormous challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its ability to deal with an organized group of migrants numbering in the hundreds.

The number of people who showed up to travel with the caravan caught organizers by surprise, and has overwhelmed the various towns they’ve stopped in to spend the night. Pueblos Sin Fronteras counted about 1,200 people on the first day.

UPDATE
March 30, 2018, at 5:44 p.m.
The cravan is now travelling on a train called The Beast.  By Friday afternoon, plans to make it to another train stop had fallen through, and the caravan set up camp in Santiago Niltepec, in Mexico’s Oaxaca state. Several of the buildings in the municipality are still cracked and crumbling from an earthquake that struck in February. But migrants took shelter in them anyway as it began to rain. Many of the people were wondering when, or if, they’d be able to board “the Beast” for the journey north.