Organizers of 4,000-strong caravan persuade eight-months pregnant Haitian woman to LEAVE hospital and rejoin the group heading to US
- Mexico's National Institute of Migration said Monday that caravan organizers convinced a pregnant Haitian migrant to leave a hospital and rejoin group
- The 28-year-old woman was with her husband at a hospital in Chiapas when one of the organizers showed up at the medical facility
- The immigration agency indicated that the organizer spoke to the woman's hospital and then helped them leave the hospital in the city of Mapastepec
- About 4,000 migrants were set to arrive in the Chiapas city of Pijijiapan on Tuesday
- The group had spent the last two days in the Mapastepec village of Nuevo Milenio Valdivia due to weather concerns
An eight-months pregnant woman from Haiti was convinced by a caravan organizer that she was better off rejoining a caravan of nearly 4,000 migrants instead of seeking medical treatment before he escorted her and her husband out of a hospital in southern Mexico.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) revealed Monday that the 28-year-old woman was accompanied by her husband to hospital in the Chiapas municipality of Maspatepec after she complained of contractions and headaches.
Somehow one of the caravan’s leaders tracked down the Haitian couple at the medical facility and persuaded them to resume their journey to the United States border.
“The INM endorses the commitment to foreigners in mobility conditions, with special attention to vulnerable groups such as girls, boys, adolescents, pregnant women, older adults or those with a physical injury,” the immigration agency said in a statement.
A 28-year-old Haitian woman, who is eight months pregnant, and her husband abandoned a hospital in Chiapas, Mexico, on Monday after they were convinced by a caravan organizer that she should rejoin the group of nearly 4,000 people who is traveling to the U.S. border. The woman experienced contractions and headaches, according to the National Institute of Migration
Migrants who are planning to reach the U.S. border to seek asylum from the Biden administration trek through the southern Mexico municipality of Mapastepec in the state of Chiapas on Monday. The group had stopped a third of the way into its walk to the Chiapas city of Pijijiapan, and resumed travel Tuesday before dawn
National Institute of Migration continued to express its concerns over a caravan that is made up of Africans, Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans who set off from the Chiapas municipality of Tapachula - which sits across the border from Guatemala - on October 23.
Many among the caravan’s migrant population, including 1,200 minors, have been treated for dehydration and foot injuries as temperatures soared past 100 degrees.
The National Institute of Migration reported Monday that six people, including five children, had developed dengue fever. Two minors were hospitalized, including one who was in serious condition. The parents of the other three children declined medical treatment and opted against hospitalizing them because they deemed it more important to rejoin the caravan.
Mexican news station Foro TV reported Tuesday that the caravan departed the Maspatepec village of Villa Nueva Valdivia around 4am local time and was only three miles for rolling into the city of Pijijiapan.
A migrant pulls along a girl in a toy carriage down a road in Chiapas, Mexico, as a caravan of about 4,000 asylum seekers, including 1,200 children, traveled towards the U.S. border
A migrant family walks along the side of a road in Mapastepec, a city in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, were a caravan heading to the U.S. border has spent the last two days
Mexico's National Institute of Migration is concerned over the health risks that migrants traveling in the caravan may experience as they march on towards the U.S. border. At least six people, including five minors, have been diagnosed with dengue fever
A National Institute of Migration spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Monday evening that the agency still hopes the migrants will accept the humanitarian visa offer that has been extended to minors and pregnant women.
Migrants will be eligible for public government programs, including access to shelters, health care, work permits and the ability to freely transit in Mexico.
The official explained that those who do accept would be transferred to centers across six states where their migration needs will be fully tended to.
Mexican newspaper El Universal reported last week that the humanitarian visas had been rejected because organizers do not want the migrants sent back to Tapachula.
Caravan organizers continue to also stress that the proposal should be extended to all of the migrants, and insist that the group marches on to Mexico City where it hopes the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will honor the caravan’s wishes, which in the past have been ignored.
Migrants heading in a caravan to the US, take a rest prior to continue their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status, in the municipality of La Galeana
Migrants walk as they take part in a caravan heading to Mexico City, in Hermenegildo Galeana, Chiapas, on Monday
Migrants pause along their journey to the U.S. border and take time out to rest in Nuevo Milenio Valdivia, a village of 1,500 residents in Maspatepec, Chiapas
Luis Villagrán, one of the caravan’s leader told Reuters over the weekend that there were more that more than 90 pregnant women and 150 children complained they could no longer walk after having spent the last week on the road.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) said on Sunday that it has been in constant contact with Villagrán and Irineo Mujica, another caravan leader.
“It’s irresponsible that, due to the decisions of two people calling themselves leaders of the caravan, an agreement is not reached for the INM to provide foreigners with a regular immigration status, food and accommodation, as a consequence of the detriment of physical integrity by being exposed to various (health) risks,” the agency said.
“The INM warns of the risk posed for the migrant population that makes up this caravan that the leaders convince them to continue advancing at the cost of their physical exhaustion, health problems, exposure to extreme temperatures and poor nutrition.”
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