Mexico condemns violent actions by migration agents caught on video


  • World
  • Tuesday, 31 Aug 2021

Migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean walk in a caravan headed to the Mexican capital to apply for asylum and refugee status, on a highway near Escuintla, in Chiapas state, Mexico August 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) condemned the actions of agents caught on video over the weekend throwing a migrant to the ground and kicking him in the face with the help of National Guard troops.

The government deployed hundreds of security forces to head off a caravan of migrants and asylum seekers who left https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hundreds-migrants-depart-southern-mexico-caravan-protest-slow-asylum-process-2021-08-28 the southern city of Tapachula on Saturday for Mexico City, where they hoped to seek expedited asylum proceedings.

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