(2 Jul 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4386856 ASSOCIATED PRESS: Tapachula - 1 July 2022 1. Various of migrants walking on road HEADLINE: Migrant caravan heads north from Southern Mexico 2 . National guard police following the caravan ANNOTATION: Some 2,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, started walking days after 53 people died abandoned in an abandoned trailer near Houston, U.S. 3. Luis Enrique Uzcátegui pulling his son in a plastic crate ANNOTATION: By traveling in numbers, they expect to pressure authorities into allowing them to continue their journey. 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Enrique Uzcátegui, Venezuelan migrant: "(I'm migrating) because the situation in Venezuela is tough, we can't practically live there or provide a future for our children." 5 . Uzcátegui pulling his son 6. Vehicles and migrants on the road 7. Various of migrants walking on road 8. Migrants walking, pulling their luggage ANNOTATION: While migrant caravans have garnered media attention, those traveling in them are only a fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. 9. Migrant pushing his luggage on a makeshift trolley ANNOTATION: Many suffer from violence by the smugglers who traffick them through hazardous or remote routes. . ASSOCIATED PRESS: Huehuetan - 1 July 2022 10. Various of migrants moving through immigration control point STORYLINE: Some 2,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, walked out of the southern Mexican city of Tapachula early Friday en masse, to pressure authorities into allowing them to continue to the US border at a time attention is focused on immigration. The latest large public exit of migrants from Tapachula follows the discovery of an abandoned semitrailer in San Antonio with more than 60 migrants inside. Fifty-three of them died in the failed smuggling attempt. It also comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration did not err in ending the controversial Trump-era policy that forced some asylum seekers to wait out their cases in Mexico. Following other mass movements of migrants from Tapachula last month, the Mexican government quickly negotiated to give them temporary documents. Many migrants are no longer tolerating Mexico's strategy of confining them to the south, far from the U.S. border. They complain that the process of regularizing their status -- usually by applying for asylum -- takes too long and with limited work available, they cannot afford to wait. Dozens of National Guard troops watched them walk without intervening. Doris Perdomo, a Venezuelan migrant traveling with her two young children, falsely believed that US President Joe Biden would allow all migrants to enter the United States. The court ruling, however, was expected to have little immediate impact because the Biden administration had seldom applied the so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy during his presidency. Another Trump-era policy that remains in effect and was not affected by Thursday's ruling allows the government to quickly expel migrants without a chance to ask for asylum — casting aside U.S. law and an international treaty — on grounds of containing the spread of COVID-19. There have been more than 2 million expulsions since the pandemic-era rule, known as Title 42 authority, was introduced in March 2020. While migrant caravans have garnered media attention, the migrants traveling in them represent a tiny fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. border every day, usually with the help of smugglers. AP video shot by Edgar Hernández =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3fbb37f63cf441c3a30f320a245fc86e