Amid U.S. border crackdown, some Haitian migrants seek asylum in Mexico

FILE PHOTO: A paper that reads, "I authorise these means to hear and receive notifications" is pictured next to migrants from Haiti line up to regularise their migratory situation outside of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR), in Mexico City, Mexico September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Haitian asylum seekers congregated outside Mexico's refugee agency in the capital and in shelters in the northern city of Monterrey on Wednesday, as migrants deterred by a crackdown at the U.S. border sought legal status in Mexico.

Nearly 10,000 migrants, mainly Haitian, remain in worsening conditions in an impromptu camp that sprang up under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande from the Texas town Del Rio to Mexico's Ciudad Acuna.