By Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby | Breitbart
The first migrant caravan of 2025 began its journey from Southern Mexico, intending to reach the U.S. border prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Between 2,000 to 2,500 migrants started the first caravan of 20205 in the southern state of Chiapas. The goal of the group is to walk to Mexico City to find alternate routes to reach the U.S. border and claim asylum.
The caravan began early Thursday morning in the Bicentennial Park of Tapachula, Chiapas. Agents with Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) who spoke with Breitbart Texas revealed that the coordination for the caravan was carried out through social media messages and messaging applications, not posterboards and loudspeakers, as it had done in the past. The move was made to avoid any interference from authorities.