A caravan left Tapachula in southern Mexico on Tuesday, with some of its members saying they hoped Democrats’ midterm wins would make it easier to enter the United States.
EFE estimated the group at about 2,000 people, most from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Agence France-Presse put the number at about 1,000.
Real America’s Voice correspondent Oscar Ramirez said in an X post Wednesday that the group was approaching the Viva México checkpoint near Tapachula. His video shows people walking beneath a highway overpass.
Elections are critical!
The migrant caravan of 2000 advances towards the first inspection point of viva Mexico in direction to the US borders.@RealAmVoice @TimcastNews @BenBergquam @RaymondAzarM @Bannons_WarRoom @stinchfield1776 @KimIversenShow @KimWexlerMAJD pic.twitter.com/hn2TUkMP7z
— Oscar Ramirez – Real America’s Voice correspondent (@OscarRamirezTJ) November 11, 2026
The caravan, which calls itself Dios con Nosotros, regrouped at Tapachula’s Bicentennial Park after traveling from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, through Guatemala. Its members asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government for permission to travel through Mexico, La Jornada reported.
Tapachula is more than 1,000 miles by road from Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas. On Tuesday, Mexican National Guard troops, immigration agents and Chiapas state police blocked a road to stop a separate group of about 100 people who had crossed from Guatemala, AFP reported.
Hopes of a change in Washington
“Our destination is the United States,” Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan, told AFP. He said he hoped the Democratic wins would give him “another chance” to enter the country.
Narciso Aparicio, a 73-year-old Salvadoran, told Noticias Telemundo he had heard talk that the change in Congress meant the border would open. Álvaro José Vanegas Estrada told EFE he set out with $20 and planned to work in northern Mexico while he waited to see whether U.S. policy would change.
Democrats won the House and Senate on November 3, as The Dallas Express reported. The newly elected lawmakers’ terms begin at noon January 3, 2027, under the 20th Amendment.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico warned on November 5 that anyone who crosses illegally faces legal consequences, whether traveling alone or in a caravan. The embassy said U.S. immigration laws remained in effect after the election.
