3,000-Strong Migrant Caravan Begins Walking Toward US–Mexico Border

Migrants from Central and South America take part in a caravan attempting to reach the Mexico-US border, while carrying out a viacrucis to protest for the death of 40 migrants in a fire at a detention center in the northern city of Juárez, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, southern Mexico, on April 23, 2023. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

About 3,000 migrants set out on April 23 in a large caravan from southern Mexico and began walking north in what organizers said was a protest demanding an end to detention centers like the one that burned down last month, killing dozens.

The migrants, mostly Venezuelans, started walking north early on April 23 from Tapachula, a city in Mexico close to the border with Guatemala.