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A caravan of migrants, astir from cardinal America, caput northbound arsenic they depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Immigration activists accidental they volition pb migrants retired of the confederate Mexico metropolis of Tapachula Saturday astatine the commencement of a march they anticipation volition bring them to Mexico City to property their lawsuit for amended treatment. (AP Photo/ Edgar H. Clemente)

TAPACHULA – Over 2,000 migrants, chiefly Central Americans, began walking retired of a metropolis successful confederate Mexico connected Saturday wherever they person fundamentally been trapped.

The migrants walked on a road starring westbound and northbound toward the U.S. border, and pushed past a enactment of authorities constabulary who were trying to halt them.

There were insignificant scuffles, but the migrants continued connected their way. Police, migration agents and National Guard person breached up smaller attempts astatine akin breakouts earlier this year.

Tens of thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti person been waiting successful the confederate metropolis of Tapachula for exile oregon asylum papers that mightiness let them to travel, but person grown bushed of delays successful the process.

Unlike erstwhile marches, the 1 that started Saturday from Tapachula did not see arsenic galore Haitian migrants, thousands of whom reached the U.S. borderline astir Del Rio, Texas successful September.

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In August, National Guard troops successful riot cogwheel blocked respective 100 Haitians, Cubans and Central Americans who acceptable retired walking connected a road from Tapachula.

Mexico requires migrants applying for humanitarian visas oregon asylum to stay successful the borderline authorities of Chiapas, adjacent to Guatemala, for their cases to beryllium processed.

In January, a larger caravan of migrants tried to permission Honduras but was blocked from crossing Guatemala.

The marches are reminiscent, but obscurity adjacent arsenic large, arsenic the migrant caravans that crossed Mexico successful 2018 and 2019.

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