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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edgar H. Clemente

Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status

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

A group of about 1,200 migrants set out walking before dawn in southern Mexico on Wednesday aiming for the capital where they hoped to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border.

Cubans made up the majority of the migrants, but there were also people from Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil and Haiti.

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