A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants sets out walking north from southern Mexico

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE
Associated Press

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants has started walking north from southern Mexico, a week after a larger group that set out on Christmas Eve largely dissolved. The migrants are mostly from Central and South America, and say they have grown tired of waiting in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border. The migrants carried a sign reading “Migrating is not a crime, it is a crime for a government to use repression against migrants.” The group managed to walk past two highway control checkpoints Thursday as immigration agents and National Guard troopers stood by.