Mexican Officials Cut Off New Caravan of Illegal Aliens, Breaking up Main Group

An agent of the National Migration Institute (INM) and National Guard members try to detain an illegal alien during an operation to dissolve a caravan from Central America and the Caribbean as it tries to make its way to the U.S., in Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico, on Sep. 5, 2021. Jacob Garcia/Reuters

HUIXTLA, Mexico—Mexican security and migration officials early on Sunday blocked the passage of a new caravan of illegal aliens, detaining several people, as the government moved to break up the group just a day after it set off from southern Mexico for the United States.

At around 5 a.m. local time, members of Mexico’s National Guard and the National Institute of Migration (INM) began surrounding the illegal immigrants on the edge of the southern town of Huixtla, prompting some of them to flee, a Reuters witness said.