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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

About 300 migrants start walking north in southern Mexico, but goal is not US border

Mexico Immigration - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

About 300 migrants walked out of this southern Mexican city Wednesday, hoping to move north, even as the activist who helped organize them remained in police custody over allegations of human trafficking.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Luis García Villagrán, the leader of a local nongovernmental organization arrested Tuesday in Tapachula, “is not an activist.” She said he was tied to trafficking people, “that is the crime.”

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