Why Are So Many People Joining Migrant Caravan Heading For US?

 

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Thousands of migrants making their way to the border between the United States and Mexico. The majority of the population is from Venezuela, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras.

Why are so many individuals joining the caravan of migrants traveling to the United States? What is the purpose of the caravan of migrants? Will the US face a migrant problem as a result?

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At least one hundred migrants departed Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, on Sunday in order to join the migrant caravan that was traveling to the United States. At least 7,000 migrants made up the larger caravan, which was stopped in the town of Huixtla, north of Tapachula.

The bigger caravan of migrants headed for the United States left Mexico last week. The migrants expressed their desire to apply for asylum in the United States.

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Many migrants are escaping the political unrest and poverty that exist in their home nations. In an effort to live a better life, they are traveling to the US.

This year, a record number of people have crossed the US border; one migrant woman told the reporters, “It is good that we accompany each other in the caravan, it seems safer to me.” 

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President of the United States Joe Biden is facing tremendous pressure to reduce the number of individuals entering the country illegally.