1Mexican immigration agents detain a Haitian man in Escuintla, in the state of Chiapas.
The Mexican government has launched an operation this week to stop the migrant caravans that have left Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, heading north.
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2A Haitian migrant holds his country's flag as he pleads with the Mexican National Guard not to stop migrants heading to the US-Mexico border.
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3UN Haitian migrants and their son are arrested by Mexican migration in Chiapas.
Unicef has expressed concern as identified cases of serious injury and family separation.
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4The Mexican authorities dispersed the migrant caravans that left for Mapstepec, where the last two groups arrived before being dissolved by the security forces.
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5A Haitian migrant is detained in Escuintla, Chiapas.
The Deputy Commissioner for Protection of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Gillian Triggs, denounced the "unprecedented pressure" that Central American migrants have faced in Mexico.
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6 Elements of the National Guard detain migrants staying at a hotel in Huixtla, Chiapas, on September 2.
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7Migrantes Haitians walking down the road in Huixtla, State of Chiapas.
Mexico has gone from being a transit country to a destination country for thousands of asylum seekers, this year it faces a record number of new applications, which could exceed 100,000, according to a UNHCR report.
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Haitian migrant 8A with baby walking along the road in Huixtla, Chiapas.
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9Elements of the Mexican National Guard search through a papaya field for Haitian migrants who are part of a caravan that is heading north, in Escuintla.
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10In the early morning of September 1, immigration agents made arrests of people who were resting in Mapstepec, Chiapas.
"Yes, we will continue to contain," said the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. ISAAC GUZMAN AFP
11A migrant traveling with a child on his shoulders in Macastepec, Chiapas.
Despite being disparagingly described as “undocumented”, thousands of migrants carry complete folders with their files and life histories to present to the immigration authorities first and then to the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR).
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12An agent from the National Migration Institute (INM) detains a migrant during an operation to stop the advance of a caravan of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean.
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13 INM agents detain a migrant woman in Mapstepec, Chiapas, in the early morning of September 1.
The UN has condemned the actions of Mexican immigration agents.
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14During one of the operations on September 1, a migrant woman collapsed in front of Mexican immigration agents and elements of the National Guard.
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15 UNICEF condemned “the disproportionate use of force by security forces against families with young children and destruction of identity documents that guarantee legal stay.” JACOB GARCÍA REUTERS
The violent operation in Mexico to stop the migrant caravan, in pictures
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Immigration agents and the National Guard attack and persecute Central Americans who travel through Chiapas to seek an answer to their asylum requests