Police prevent the entry of a migrant caravan in Guatemala 2:37
(CNN Spanish) --
A caravan made up of more than 300 migrants who had left on Thursday from Tapachula, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, with the intention of reaching the United States, was dissolved this Friday by immigration agents, elements of the Guard National and the State Police, the National Migration Institute (INM) reported in a statement.
According to the statement, the authorities found the migrants, who were in two groups, the first, along Federal Highway Mexico 200 and the second, along secondary roads.
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"In accordance with human rights, they were transferred by bus to the entity's migratory headquarters, where their situation is reviewed. Meanwhile, those who traveled as a family unit remained under the tutelage of the System for the Integral Development of the Family in the state," the INM explained in the document.