Mexico pulls migrants from southern "prison" city, warding off another caravan

FILE PHOTO: Migrants, mostly Haitians, wait outside a stadium to apply for humanitarian visas issued by Mexican authorities to be able to cross through Mexican territory to reach the U.S. border, in Tapachula, Mexico November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

TAPACHULA (Reuters) - Mexican officials have begun dispersing several hundred migrants gathered in the southern city of Tapachula by busing them to other states, heading off the prospect of a new caravan heading north.

The migrants, mostly from Haiti and parts of Latin America, had been in limbo in Tapachula in Chiapas state while enduring lengthy waits for asylum and visa requests to be resolved.