Central American migrants continue to face crackdown in Mexico
A signal of a shift in policy away from providing humanitarian support for Central American refugees and towards a programme of containment which is more in line with the demands of the US president.
At least 1,300 migrants, mostly Cubans, staged the largest mass escape in recent memory from a Mexican detention centre.
They say they had been facing overcrowding and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
Meanwhile, a caravan of some 3,000 Central American migrants has been broken up by immigration officials in southern Mexico.
Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo reports from the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Published On 26 Apr 2019