MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers, armed police and migration officials blocked hundreds of migrants after they crossed the border from Guatemala in a caravan into southern Mexico on Wednesday, and detained dozens of them, a witness from a migrant aid group and an official said. "That many sailors and military police, yes, it's new," Cruz said, by WhatsApp, from Metapa, in the southern border state of Chiapas, where the vast majority of migrants from Central America cross into Mexico. Trump announced the tariffs in retaliation for what he called Mexico's failure to stop Central American migrants from reaching the U.S. border. The migrants later agreed to be taken by bus to a migration office to be processed, the INM said. An INM official in Mexico City who was unauthorised to talk to the media said, on condition of anonymity, that the migrants were being asked to show their status in Mexico.

Source: The Star June 05, 2019 23:26 UTC