Migrant caravan in southern Mexico marks Christmas Day by trudging onward
by Edgar H. Clemente
Dec 25, 2023
3 minutes
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 the Catholic church to some of the migrants in the town of Álvaro Obregón, 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
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