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Visa rules in Mexico don’t stop Venezuelans headed to US

FILE - A forensics team bury 15 unidentified migrants who died trying to cross the Darien Gap at Guayabillo cemetery in Agua Fria, Panama, Sept. 30, 2021. The migrants, who are buried with plasticized cards containing what little information investigators were able to gather, died of natural causes or in accidental deaths while crossing the Darien jungle trying to make their way to the United States. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File) FILE - Venezuelan migrant Jesus Gonzalez, who broke his leg while crossing the Darien jungle, is pushed in a wheelchair along the Huehuetan highway in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, June 7, 2022. The 53-year-old man alternated between crutches and a wheelchair pushed by relatives and friends as the family continued northward to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) FILE - Venezuelan migrant Jesus Gonzalez, who broke his leg while crossing the Darien Gap, sits with a single crutch with his family who are part of a migrant caravan that stopped to rest in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, June 8, 2022. The 53-year-old man alternated between crutches and a wheelchair pushed by relatives and friends as the family continued northward to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) FILE - Women hold signs with a message that reads in Spanish: "Migrating is not a crime," during a protest outside the Trinidad and Tobago embassy after Trinidad Coast Guard officers were involved in the firing on migrant boat where a Venezuelan baby died and its mother was injured, in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 8, 2022. When Mexico imposed a visa requirement on Venezuelans in January, it pushed the migrants onto more dangerous clandestine routes. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File) FILE - A migrant holds up his Venezuelan passport outside the Border Transit Comprehensive Care Center, guarded by National Guards, to ask for legal documents that allow his group to travel through Mexico, on the outskirts of Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, June 10, 2022, after the group left Tapachula by foot five days prior, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work, with the ultimate goal of reaching the US. Mexico has employed a strategy of containment, since the Trump administration, meant to keep migrants confined to the south, far from the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) FILE - Venezuelan Anderwis Gutiérrez speaks during an interview at the office of Catholic Charities, July 28, 2022, in New York. The 42-year-old construction worker and his wife spent weeks watching videos online about crossing the Darien to judge whether they thought they could do it, and joined a group of 110 migrants of different nationalities, but only 75 of them emerged from the jungle together. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) FILE - Migrants cross the Acandi River in Acandi, Colombia, Sept. 15, 2021, as they continue on their trek north towards the jungle known as the Darien Gap. Venezuelan migrants have started joining others traveling over land through the dense, lawless jungle on the Colombia-Panama border, after they became unable to fly to Mexico as tourists in Jan. 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File) FILE - A Venezuelan migrant wears their national flag within a group of migrants leaving Tapachula by foot in Chiapas state, Mexico, early morning June 6, 2022, after the group grew tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States. When Mexico imposed a visa requirement on Venezuelans in January, it pushed the migrants onto more dangerous clandestine routes. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos, File)