Two-thousand migrants continue their journey to Tijuana

More than two-thousand migrants of the caravan that arrived in Mexicali last week are continuing their journey to Tijuana Monday morning.

“It’s been a long road. We are going to try and get to Tijuana by today, but we have to see how far we can go because there’s a lot of mothers with their children,” said Carlos Ramos who helped organize the caravan.

A journey that has lasted over a month is now on the homestretch for about two-thousand migrants. Carlos Ramos traveled with his wife and a six-year-old boy who started their journey to Tijuana Monday morning. His plan, just like many of the others, is to try and seek asylum in the United States. According to Ramos, there are over three-thousand migrants in the shelters of Tijuana.

“In Tijuana, we’re planning to stay there for about 15 days and then continue forward. If we have to keep going into the United States, we will,” said Ramos.

For many of them, the journey to Mexicali was not easy like Edgar Jovanni who experienced his worst fear when he lost his son and wife during their journey.

“They said there was going to be a bus for us and I was waiting in line because my son said he was hungry and then my wife went to go look for food. As I waited for them they never came back,” said Jovanni.

Jovanni decided to continue his journey in hopes of reuniting with both his wife and son once he arrives in Tijuana.

Mexican officials said that this is just the first wave of migrants and that they’re expecting the next wave of the caravan in the next week. They also said that out of those, about a thousand of them will be staying in Mexicali.