Tired and broke, migrants in caravan turn back to Mexico's southern border

A man carries a child as he and other migrants return to Tapachula after failing to obtain a humanitarian visa from the Mexican government to transit Mexican territory as part of a caravan heading to the U.S. border, in Huehuetan, Mexico November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

HUEHUETAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of mostly Haitian migrants, broke and exhausted, turned back to the city they had left a day earlier on Mexico's southern border, having failed to persuade authorities to move them to other parts of the country, caravan organizers said.

Entire families carrying their belongings began the return trek to the southern city of Tapachula, after authorities said they would not be taken to other parts of Mexico immediately, despite pressure from migrants who set up road blocks.