Overview

• Thousands of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, formed a new caravan in southern Mexico to head for the capital to speed up their applications for U.S. asylum.
• The new caravan arose as a form of protest by migrants demanding the closure of detention centers where 40 people recently died in a fire.
• 000 migrants began walking north from southern Mexico to demand changes in the way migrants are treated and an end to detention centers.
• Mexican authorities have restricted migrant movement, trapping tens of thousands in Tapachula and making it difficult to reach the U.S. border.
• The migrants want Mexico's immigration agency dissolved after officials were blamed for a deadly fire in a detention center.