Mexican migrant caravan breaks through police blockade on its way to US

Incredible video shows the moment thousands of migrants surged through a Mexican police blockade on their way to the US border.

A massive and organised migrant caravan is on its way to the US from southern Mexico, and has already surged past a blockade set up by Mexican forces in an attempts to stop it.

Organisers said there are more than 2000 migrants in the caravan.

The group set off from Tapachula, Mexico – with some carrying American flags and signs with US President Joe Biden’s name.

Tapachula is in the south of the country on the border with Guatemala.

Organisers also reportedly made participants in the caravan register with a QR code on their phones or via a web link.

BREAKING: Migrant Caravan in Mexico encounters Mexico’s @INAMI_mx forces… #BorderCrisispic.twitter.com/8RnFir1j7x

— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) October 23, 2021

Caravana migrante sale esta mañana de Tapachula rumbo a la CDMX.

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— Gabriela Warkentin (@warkentin) October 23, 2021

Within hours of setting off, the flood of migrants encountered a wall of Mexican interior police wearing protective gear and wielding shields.

But the security did not hold, as the crowd surged through the blockade and continued on their way to try to seek entry into the US.

On Friday, US Customs and Border Protection announced there had been a record-breaking 1.7 million migrant encounters in fiscal year 2021.

There were more than 192,000 encounters in September alone – a slight decrease from the more than 200,000 encountered in July and August.

The migrant caravan set off from Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on October 23, 2021. Picture: Damian Sanchez/AFP

Migrants had to register with a QR code to join the caravan, according to reports. Picture: Damian Sanchez/AFP

Border crisis continues for Biden

It is being taken as a sign that the border crisis that has dogged the Biden administration is far from over.

The administration also had to deal with a massive Haitian migrant surge in September, and fears that more surges could be on the way.

The Biden administration has blamed root causes like poverty, corruption and violence in Central America and elsewhere, and has pledged massive investments of taxpayer money to try to combat those issues.

“Money is not going to solve the problem,” immigrant activist Irineo Mujica said.

“Throwing it to governments like Mexico where they put people from the south border to the north border is not the solution.

“They should give them papers here, they should give them the opportunity to work here.

“Because a lot of them don’t want to go to the US, but the Biden administration, with this administration, it’s like pulling them like cattle.”

The border crisis has been a constant issue for US President Joe Biden since he took office. Picture: Nicholas Kamm/AFP

Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed to the rapid rollback of Trump-era border policies by the Biden administration – particularly the ending of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) which kept migrants in Mexico as their cases were heard.

The Biden administration is currently reinstituting MPP after a court order forced it to do so – but has stressed that it is also trying to end the program via a new memo.

Mr Biden was asked this week why he had not been to the border amid the crisis. He said he had “been there before” but admitted, “I guess I should go down.”

However, the White House later could only point to a drive through the border that Biden took on the campaign trail in 2008 as evidence that Mr Biden had in fact been to the border.

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