Immigration agents violently disband migrant groups in southern Mexico

Mexican immigration officials and National Guard soldiers have been chasing and detaining groups of migrants attempting to leave the southern state of Chiapas. According to human rights observers, authorities are systematically separating parents from children and physically assaulting men. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports. 

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