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Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week.
Several thousand undocumented migrants continue their journey through southern Mexico with the intention of demanding a humanitarian visa from the Mexican government to allow them legal passage to the US border. The migrants left on Monday from the Mexican city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala. On the same day, the Summit of the Americas kicked off in Los Angeles, with migration issues on the agenda.
Several thousand migrants set out walking in the rain early Monday in southern Mexico, tired of waiting to normalise their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States.
Thousands of undocumented migrants leave the city of Tapachula, in southern Mexico, with the intention of reaching the United States, where the Summit of the Americas began with the issue of migration on its agenda.
Migrants, part of a caravana heading to the United States, resume their journey after waking up in a makeshift camp in Nuevo Morales, Mexico. IMAGES