Migrant Caravan

The man, only known as Victim A, was beaten, given scraps of leftover food and forced to live in filthy conditions in a caravan

Christmas Day meant the same as any other day for thousands of migrants walking through southern Mexico: more trudging under a hot sun. There were no presents, and Christmas Eve dinner was a sandwich, a bottle of water and a banana handed out by a local church to some of the migrants in the town of lvaro Obregn, in the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. Migrants spent Christmas night sleeping on a scrap of cardboard or plastic stretched out under an awning or tent, or the bare ground. In the morning, it was waking as usual at 4 a.m., to get an early start and avoid the worst of the heat, walking to the next town, Huixtla, 20 miles (30 kilometres) away. Karla Ramrez, a migrant from Honduras who was travelling with other adults and four children, got to lvaro Obregn too late Sunday to get any of the food being given out by the church. So they had to buy whatever little they could afford. It was sad: we have never, ever been in the street before, Ramrez said. Our ...

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