Transmigrants eager to enter Mexico

[TexasTowelie]

LOS INDIOS, Texas – As thousands of Central American migrants are on either sides of U.S.-Mexican border before they head to destinations all over the United States, hundreds of their fellow countrymen are waiting to go south.

These are not the adults and unaccompanied youngsters making today’s headlines but transient visitors crossing into Mexico’s territory from across Los Indios, Texas, to Tapachula, a Mexican city near the Guatemalan border.

Known as transmigrants, these travelers are stranded today on FM 509 until the U.S. and Mexican give them the go ahead to go south.

Vehicles of all different makes and models can be seen over a 5-mile stretch of the highway from FM 800 to the Free Trade International Bridge, or the last stop before they cross into Mexico.

Read more: https://riograndeguardian.com/transmigrants-eager-to-enter-mexico/

[Hortensis]

1. :) Never realized we were transmigrants. Holdup's at Mexican customs apparently.

Last I read we did something on the order of a billion dollars of business a day across our southern border, plus of course all the people like us heading south for our own purposes.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. I don't understand ... Tapachula is like 600 miles from the Texas border ...

It'd be like an article saying tons of people are waiting to enter the US from Canada in Northern Washington so they can go to Tucson.

Why are all these people specifically going to a place 600 miles away?

[wanderer54]

3. Tapachula is on border with Gautemala

Tapachula is over 1,000miles from Texas border. Road continues to thru Guatemala to Honduras,
El Salvador,etc.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. So that's not 'where they're going', it's just the last city in Mexico before they go where they're

going?

Just seemed random. Why not just say they're going to Central America?