Mexico disbands makeshift camp with thousands of migrants


FILE PHOTO: Central American migrants form a line while they wait for a QR code to register their migrant situation in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Dec 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres/File Photo

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican officials dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the country's south near the Guatemalan border on Thursday, government officials and Reuters witnesses said.

Many of the migrants, some families with children, had been waiting in Tapachula camp for months, which some described as a "prison" due to the squalid or cramped conditions. Mexican authorities have used the camp to contain migrants and restrict their movement.

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