What could be the largest migrant caravan ever recorded is set to leave Tapachula, Mexico on Monday and head north towards the United States.
The caravan has about 11,000 migrants as of Monday but that number is expected to swell to more than 15,000 migrants by the time it reaches the southern border.
One of the organizers of the caravan confirmed the size of the group saying,
“This is the largest mass human migration I have seen in at least the past 10 years.”
Most of the migrants in the caravan come from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. Also included in the caravan are migrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, India, and South Africa.
Some of those migrants told media outlets on the ground that they are demanding Joe Biden keep his promise and rescind Title 42 so they will be allowed entry into the United States.
Fights have already started to break out from with in the caravan as the migrants scramble to get their names on a list for Visas.
The caravan departed just hours before Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he would not be attending the Summit of the Americas because the US Biden administration did not invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to participate.
More than 234,000 Illegal migrants crossed the southern border last month with nearly 1.3 million crossing in the last seven months. Almost 50% of those illegal migrants are allowed entry into the United States.
