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Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status
['Ap News']
myMotherLode.com
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of about 1,200 migrants set out walking before dawn in southern Mexico on Wednesday aiming for the capital where they hoped to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border.
Cubans made up the majority of the migrants, but there were also people from Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil and Haiti.
Cuban migrant Losiel Sánchez and his wife arrived in Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, in November.
“Everything is expensive and I can’t pay rent,” said Sánchez, who hopes to have better luck in Mexico City.
The group of migrants appeared to have organized without a leader over social platforms where frustrated migrants rallied to try to walk their way out of southern Mexico.