Overview

• Roughly 1,000 to 1,200 people set out before dawn from Tapachula bound for Mexico City to press for residency papers and access to work.
• Cubans make up the majority of the group, with others from Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti and additional Latin American countries reported.
• Participants describe months-long delays at Mexico’s COMAR office and allege pay-to-expedite schemes costing up to 20,000 pesos.
• Migrants say scams, theft of documents and unaffordable living costs in southern Mexico pushed them to leave the border city.
• The group organized informally over social media and emphasizes staying in Mexico, a strategy reshaped after President Trump ended the CBP One appointment program.