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About 3,000 migrants left on Tuesday. from the south of Mexico towards the USA, in a new caravan with which they are trying to attract the attention of US election candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

The group gathered very early in the center of Tapachula, the capital of Chiapas, carrying banners with legends such as “NO + (still) MIGRANT BLOOD” and images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, whom they pray to take care of them along the way, according to Reuters witnesses.

“I would like the (United States) authorities to see us,” “Let them see that we are people who want to go to work, it won’t hurt anyone,” Honduran migrant Roy Murillo, who joined the caravan with his two children and pregnant wife, told Reuters.

In recent years, several migrant caravans have headed to the United States to are arriving en masse at the southern border of the North American country, although in almost all cases they diverged during the journey.

“I am very afraid to go alone with my family, This is where the cartels kidnap you or kill you. (…) that’s why we came in a caravan,” Murillo added and said that he tried to obtain asylum through the CBP One platform created by the US government, but was unsuccessful.

Tapachula, a mandatory passage for tens of thousands of migrants, has become one of the country’s most violent cities in recent months, according to official data, ranking Migrants among the main victims of growing organized crime activity in this area.

“I feel suffocated here, so we decided to leave,” said Thais, a 28-year-old migrant who joined the caravan with her husband and three-year-old daughter. “I would like Mr. Trump and Ms. Kamala to see that we are people.that we want to live and raise our family,” he added.

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Meanwhile, across the country, the breakneck presidential race between Republican Trump and Democrat Harris drew to an uncertain end Tuesday as millions of Americans went to the polls to choose between two vastly different visions for the country’s future.

Reuters