'We are not criminals': migrants protest in southern Mexico

FILE PHOTO: Activists and migrants from Haiti march to the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR) to claim for their rights, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants stuck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Wednesday protested against the country's immigration policies that have frustrated their efforts to travel to the United States.

Many of the Central and Latin American migrants, including a large Haitian contingent, have been stuck for months in the city of Tapachula near the border with Guatemala, complaining that authorities have stopped them from transiting through Mexico.