New caravan sets off from Mexico as officials struggle with immigration claims

Migrants queue to get on a bus after accepting an offer from the Mexican government to leave a caravan bound for the U.S. and obtain humanitarian visas to transit Mexican territory, near Escuintla, Mexico November 28, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Some 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers departed the southern Mexican city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border overnight on Sunday in the latest in a series of caravans setting out for the United States.

By Monday morning, the caravan had advanced about 25 kilometers (15 mi) to reach the town of Huehuetan, according to a Reuters witness.