Group of migrants in southern Mexico heads toward Mexico City, US border

The World

About 3,000 migrants — men, women and children — left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Saturday, heading north. Some are hoping to reach Mexico City and ask for asylum there. Others will continue on, to the US-Mexico border. But as The World’s Daisy Contreras reports, the asylum system in Mexico isn’t fully working as it should.

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