The latest: migrants cross the border gate in Guatemala
The latest: migrants cross the border gate in Guatemala
TAPANATEPEC, Mexico - The latest about the caravan of Central American migrants who made their way through southern Mexico (all local times):
3:35 p.m.
More than a hundred Central American migrants have made their way through a customs door in the Guatemalan border city of Tecun Uman to request passage to Mexico.
A Mexican official said Sunday that the group is seeking entry through Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico.
The Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre's video showed men arguing with Mexican immigration officials through the metal bars of a door separating the two countries.
Mexican immigration officers in the video urge men to bring families to the front of the line and file their transit requests in an orderly manner.
Cesar Quinonez is a volunteer firefighter at Tecun Uman and told the Associated Press by telephone that several Guatemalan and migrant police officers were injured when the group kicked and pushed through the door on the Guatemalan side of the border. He says that several people received medical treatment for exposure to tear gas issued by the police.
A larger group of thousands of Central American migrants has made their way through southern Mexico with the goal of reaching the United States border. Mexico has offered them asylum if they remain in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
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11:40 a.m.
Another group of Central American migrants goes to a caravan hoping that the strength of the numbers will help them reach the United States.
About 300 Salvadorans departed Sunday from Plaza El Salvador del Mundo in the capital of San Salvador. The group was organized through Facebook, emulating several other recent caravans that have come together to help migrants with limited financial resources to make the trip without paying high fees to human traffickers.
It is not clear who organized the new group.
The group must travel about 75 miles (120 kilometers) to reach the border with Guatemala and another 185 miles (300 kilometers) to reach the southernmost border of Mexico.
A caravan of thousands of Central American migrants is making headway in southern Mexico, however, Mexican authorities said on Friday they had prevented a separate and smaller group from advancing.
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8:45 a.m.
A local official in southern Mexico says a disturbance broke out in the camp of Central American migrants trying to break through southern Mexico to the US. UU
The head of municipal security, Raul Medina Meléndez, in the city of Tapanatepec, says that some in the crowd got upset when a man with a megaphone urged them to stand in line and wait for their turn for the sandwiches and water that the city was distributing Saturday.
He says some started attacking him and fled down a street. A false rumor spread that the man had grabbed a child to protect himself from the attackers.
The assailants caught and beat him, but the police intervened and treated him in a hospital.
When dawn on Sunday, several in the crowd took a microphone to reprimand their colleagues for the attack and urge a better behavior.
The group of approximately 4,000 people has decided to rest for a day in the city, which in turn has a population of only 7,500.
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