The southern border is experiencing a record wave of migration

1The shield deployed by Mexico to prevent the departure of migrants has 14,000 elements of the Army, Navy and National Guard.

Marco Ugarte AP

2The decision to leave Tapachula was a reaction to the administrative silence of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar), the body in charge of responding to refugee requests.

Much of the problem is that the Commission is overwhelmed.

Marco Ugarte AP

3Agents from the National Migration Institute during an operation to detain Central American migrants in Tapachula, Chiapas (Mexico).

Juan Manuel Blanco EFE

4Migrants from Central America and Haiti walk in a caravan on a highway in Escuintla, Chiapas (Mexico).

JACOB GARCIA REUTERS

5Migrants rest on a sports field in Huixtla, Chiapas (Mexico).

JACOB GARCIA REUTERS

6The National Guard detains a Haitian migrant and his son while they were walking along a highway in Escuintla, Chiapas State (Mexico).

Marco Ugarte AP

7A man carries a child on his shoulders during the caravan of Central American and Haitian migrants heading to the United States.

ISAAC GUZMAN AFP

8The Mexican authorities disintegrated the fourth migrant caravan that started on Saturday morning from the municipality of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, and was destined for the north of the country.

Marco Ugarte AP