Mexican officials cut off new migrant caravan, breaking up main group

Agents of the National Migration Institute (INM) detain migrants during an operation to dissolve a caravan of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean as they try to make their way to the U.S., in Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres

HUIXTLA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican security and migration officials early on Sunday blocked the passage of a new migrant caravan, 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 migrants on the edge of the southern town of Huixtla, prompting some of them to flee, a Reuters witness said.