Mexico moves migrants from southern state; asylum seekers awaited at U.S. border

FILE PHOTO: Migrants hold hands to control other migrants who want to get on a bus, in Tapachula, Mexico December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican officials have sped up the transfer of thousands of migrants from southern Mexico to other regions as northern border states prepare to receive asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the United States.

Dozens of buses full of migrants, mostly from Central America as well as some from Cuba and Venezuela, have the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state in recent days to head to other states, a Reuters witness and an activist said on Monday.