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Caravan of 2,000 Migrants Detained in Southern Mexico

Associated Press

   TAPACHULA, MEXICO - Mexican officials broke up a caravan of around
   2,000 migrants that had set out from southern Mexico Saturday in the
   hopes of reaching the United States, amid increasing difficulty
   obtaining permission to pass through Mexico.

   Many of the migrants who departed from Tapachula, Chiapas, early in the
   morning had been held up in this city just north of Guatemala for weeks
   or months, awaiting residency or transit papers from Mexican
   authorities. The migrants are originally from Central America, Africa
   and the Caribbean.

   They left their home countries sometimes because of violence, or simply
   in search of a better life.

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