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A person walks past a pride flag at Casa Frida, a shelter that supports LGBTQ+ migrants, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

How a shelter hit by Donald Trump’s aid cuts protects LGBTQ migrants in Mexico

By María Teresa Hernández - Associated Press

Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, hoping to reach the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

Migrant caravan forms in Mexico; goal is to reach U.S. before Trump’s inauguration

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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)

A group of 2,000 migrants in southern Mexico depart for the U.S. weeks before election

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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)

U.S. expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north

By Edgar H. Clemente and María Verza - Associated Press

Migrants who had been waiting for temporary transit papers, but failed to get them after waiting, some up to two months, leave Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, as they make their way to the U.S. border. The migrants said they did not have the resources to pay for food and lodging to wait any longer. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)

5,000 migrants set out on foot from Mexico’s southern border, headed for U.S.

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. Migrants, mostly from Haiti, have burst Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, into an asylum office in Tapachula, to demand papers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

Migrants start walking north from Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Migrants stuck in southern Mexico and angry about 40 of their own who died in a fire at a detention facility last month, began walking toward Mexico City. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente)

3,000 migrants begin walk north from southern Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

Migrants wait inside a local's home they are paying to stay in while waiting on the Mexican immigration office to accept their application for legal migration documents and give them "safe passage" permits in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. A local taxi driver rents out space to migrants looking for lodging, for 100 pesos, or about $5 dollars a night. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Thriving network of fixers preys on migrants crossing Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Migrant break through a line of National Guards trying to block them from leaving Tapachula, Mexico, Friday, April 1, 2022. Migrants have complained they have been essentially confined to Tapachula by the slow processing of their asylum cases and that they are unable to find work. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

Migrants march from southern Mexico as Biden lifts COVID ban

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

A caravan of migrants, mostly from Central America, heading north, stop to rest in the Alvaro Obregon community, Tapachula municipality, Chiapas state, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Over 2,000 migrants march out of southern city in Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

Migrants walk down Highway 200 en route to Huixtla near Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 12, 2019. Migrants from Africa, Cuba, Haiti, and other Central American countries set off early morning by foot from Tapachula to the southern border of the United States. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Hundreds of migrants corralled at detention center in Mexico

By BENJAMIN ALFARO and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

Migrants depart early in the morning from Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 12, 2019. Migrants from Africa, Cuba, Haiti, and other Central American countries set off early morning by foot from Tapachula to the southern border of the United States. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Caravan of 2,000 migrants detained in southern Mexico

By ISABEL MATEOS and BENJAMIN ALFARO and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

This June 1, 2019 photo, shows the Siglo XXI migrant detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico. As of late April there were more than 2,000 migrants in Siglo XXI, according to the commission, over double its 960 capacity. (AP Photo/Pedro Giron)

Overcrowding, abuse seen at Mexico migrant detention center

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Cuban migrants land on the Mexican side of the Suchiate River on the border with Guatemala, after crossing on a raft near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, early Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Mexican officials say they are beginning deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops for immigration enforcement, an accelerated commitment made as part of an agreement with the United States last week to head off threatened U.S. tariffs on imports from Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico says Guard deployment beginning, forms migrant team

By MARCO UGARTE and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A migrant child calls out to a street vendor selling water as he waits with other children inside an area of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid office, while their parents fill out paperwork, in Tapachula, Mexico, Friday, April 26, 2019. Thousands of migrants remain on the southern border of Mexico waiting for documents that allow them to stay legally in the country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Global migrants’ journey stalls in southern Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Migrants sleep packed together in a church courtyard at nightfall, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans hoping to reach the U.S. border stops for the night in Niltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. As the caravan resumed its slow advance Monday, still at least 1000 miles or farther from the U.S., the Pentagon announced it would send 5,200 active-duty troops to &quot;harden&quot; the border.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Migrant caravan demands transport as 2nd group enters Mexico

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARKO ALVAREZ - Associated Press