Caravan of over 2,000 migrants depart southern city in Mexico
TAPACHULA, Mexico – More than 2,000 migrants, mainly Central Americans, began walking out of a city in southern Mexico on Saturday where they have essentially been trapped. The migrants walked along a highway leading west and north toward the U.S. border, and pushed past a line of state police There were minor scuffles and a child suffered a slight head wound, but the migrants continued. They made it only a few miles to the nearby village of Alvaro Obregon before stopping to rest for the night at a baseball field.