re: African migrants headed to the US fight with Mexican Piolice

But we’re full of racists and bigots and we hate immigrants, I’m not sure why they’d want to come here.

Interesting:

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Alain Tita Mongu takes part in the protests. Mongu left his native Cameroon in early May. He flew to Ecuador, then crossed Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before arriving in Talismán, Mexico in early June. He explained why he and other migrants had decided to protest:

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Two days after I arrived in Mexico, I was put in immigration detention in Tapachula for having entered the country illegally.

Two weeks later, they released me and handed me a document that I thought would guarantee me freedom to travel through the country-- some of the Africans who arrived in Mexico a few months prior had explained to me that’s how it works. So I immediately hopped on a bus going north. But about an hour and half into my journey, there was a security check and I was sent to Tapachula. It turned out that the document that I had didn’t even authorise me to leave Chiapas.

I had to go to the Mexican immigration service in Tapachula’s Las Vegas neighbourhood. Once there, I realized that my document was utterly useless because it stated that I was “stateless”.

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All we want is a document allowing us the freedom to travel across Mexico and not to be forced to claim asylum. We don’t want to claim asylum here

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and people want to pretend like these asylum claims aren't complete bullshite that is clogging the system for actual asylum seekers

that's the problem with these wink-wink arguments about real policy that pretend like fraud isn't going on: it hurts the people who actually need to use the policy. you're rewarding the people who are not in danger and engaging in fraud to the detriment of people who legitimately need asylum protection. how is that noble? fair? good?

But I was told it's only Mexican women and children crossing over

"All we want is a document guaranteeing us the freedom of movement to travel through this country"