Mexico breaks up second migrant march

24/11/2021 12:40

        Mexican authorities say a group of hundreds of mainly Haitian and Central American migrants who had started walking north have agreed to be separated and taken by bus to several cities to apply for humanitarian visas.
        
        The migrant march had set out on Nov. 18 with about 2,000 migrants from the southern city of Tapachula.
        
        Migrants have grown tired of the long delay in granting visas in Tapachula, near the Guatemala border, where many say they can't find work.
        
        Mexico's National Immigration Institute said the migrants had agreed to stop their march Tuesday in the southern city of Mapastepec, near Tapachula. The institute distributed video showing many of them boarding buses to other cities in central and western Mexico.
        
        An earlier migrant march that set out in October is now in southern Veracruz state, but it has dwindled to several hundreds migrants, down from a high point of some 4,000.