The influx of immigrants who set out from Central and South American countries with the hope of a better life to the US continues. Irregular immigrants in Tapachula city in the Chiapas state of Mexico which is located on the country’s border with Guatemala, decided to organize a hunger strike to get permission to pass to the US. The immigrants gathered in front of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and started a hunger strike by sewing up their mouths shut together using needles and threads to make their voices heard. Helping each other to sew up their lips, the immigrants left some space in their mouths to drink water through a straw and wiped their bleeding wounds with alcohol.
Activists that participated at the protest have expressed that the immigrants sew up their lips shut as a sign of protest, and they hope the INM will see that the immigrants are human. In the hunger strike, the immigrants waiting for permission at the border have stated that they had run out of food and money, and demanded that they be allowed to pass to the US.