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Large group of exhausted migrants march north through Mexico

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This footage was filmed and produced 30 March 2024.

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A large group of undocumented migrants are traveling along a highway in the heat of Mapastepec in the Mexican state of Chiapas, as they attempt to cross into America where immigration is a major issue in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Families come from several nations all across Latin America, including Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, and other parts of Central America and South America. But there is one thing that they all have in common. That is the decision to travel in these large groups which have become, known as a migrant's caravans.

Orlando Tovar has traveled all the way from Venezuela. He said the migrants are calling this caravan "the way of the cross".

A local organization has set up a first aid station. Breisi Ramos is a migrant from Honduras. She has created the first-aid group.

They will continue to rest a few more hours. Then, they will get back on the road again before sunrise.

Shotlist:
1. Various of migrants walking along road in Mapastepec, Chiapas State, Mexico - March 30, 2024;
2. Various of migrants resting;
3. Various of Venezuelan migrant Orlando Tovar talking with reporter;
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Orlando Tovar, Venezuelan migrant (starting with shot 3):
"This path represents the life that people have lost trying to reach a dream, an achievement, to get out of oppression.";
5. Various of migrants getting water;
6. Migrants resting;
7. Bottled water; medicine;
8. Migrants lining up for helps from local organization;
9. Honduran migrant activist Breisi Ramos helping migrant with pedicure
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Breisi Ramos, Honduran migrant activist (starting with shot 9):
"I think the best message is that we can have a little bit of love and compassion for human beings. Because we are all human beings, we are all brothers, living in the same world. And one way or another, we are all migrants.";
11. Various of migrants resting;
12. Various of child migrants browsing magazine;
13. Child migrant.

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