Nearly 1,000 migrants departed from the municipality of Tapachula, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, with the United States as their final destination in what has been regarded the first migrant caravan of 2025.
Mostly composed by Venezuelan migrants, the group seeks to reach the U.S.-Mexico border before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20 as they anticipate stricter rules and heightened enforcement measures given his promises to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history.
