Mexican authorities say they detained 367 people in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through the country last year.
A migrant puts on the socks he'd left behind April 22 when his group ran and hid from Mexican immigration agents in Pijijiapan, Chiapas state.
“What we did was find the bush and get as far away as we could so they couldn’t grab us,” said Rivas, a 45-year-old soldier from El Salvador who said he had to flee his country because of gang threats. It said 367 people, including a “significant number” of children and women, were “rescued” and taken to an immigration station.
Agents had encouraged groups of migrants who separated from the bulk of the caravan to rest after some seven hours of trudging along the road, about half of that under a broiling sun. When the migrants regrouped to continue, they were detained.
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