Migrants march from south Mexico as US lifts COVID ban

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Some 500 migrants from Central America, Venezuela and elsewhere have scuffled with Mexican police and National Guard lines in southern Mexico. The migrants described the march as a traditional annual protest related to Holy Week, and those at the front carried a white cross, as others have done in previous years. However, this year the protest came two weeks early and some participants said they would go far beyond the usual short march and try to reach the U.S. border. The migrants set out Friday from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala.