Illegal Immigrants Break Border Gate, Force Their Way Into Mexico

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the United States border, walk on a road in Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, on April 12, 2019. Isabel Mateos/Photo via AP

MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 illegal immigrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday, April 12, and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.

The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America.