Up to 50,000 migrants are trapped in a Mexican detention centers after being detained by the country's national guard, only a thousand miles away from Texas.
Thousands of migrants have been put on buses in the opposite direction of the US and sent to Tapachula, near Guatemala.
Mexican national guard troops and immigration agents arrived at basketball courts and on the streets where many rain soaked and tired migrants stopped to sleep, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Mexican detention centers are dead ends for many migrants, who now have to figure out how to break out to continue their journey to the United States.
Up to 50,000 migrants are trapped in Mexican detention centers after being put on buses and sent to Tapachula to avoid them moving toward the US border
Many said they are looking for ways to break out of these centers to continue their journey to the US border
Migrants line up for breakfast after Mexico suggested the migrants camping out along the border to return to the Mexican side to avoid deportation. The Biden Administration has started deportation flights again
Half of the migrants in the camps are Haitian, with another 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants following them from Colombia.
These migrants have already had to travel through the Darien Gap - a dangerous jungle where migrants face drug traffickers, snakes, heavy rainfall, and steep ravines.
The bottleneck in Tapachula has been caused by immense pressure from the US against Mexico to keep migrants away from the US border, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Over 250,000 Haitians have left their homeland since the 2010 earthquake, and the migration increase recently spiked as Chile and Brazil's economy declined since the pandemic, where many migrants were living.
Now, the US is putting pressure on Mexico again. The Trump Administration threatened high tariffs if the country didn't stop the northward flow of migrants, which they complied too. Now the Biden Administration - who hasn't announced their plan publicly - experts say his approach is similar, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Many migrants face shelter and lack of food problems as many Haitian migrants don't have legal authorization to work in Mexico
Mexico is encouraging migrants to come back to the country and seek asylum at the Guatemala border instead of risking deportation at the US border. Mexico is not currently deporting Haitians back to their country, although they have limited spaces to keep them
'They are still relying on Mexico to prevent people from getting to the U.S.-Mexico border,' Jessica Bolter, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute told the Los Angeles Times.
Now the Mexican National Guard is wearing riot gear and immigrants agents are helping them block roads leading north.
Migrants stuck in Mexico face unemployment, as most don't have legal authorization to work, and are struggling to find shelter and food.
'There is no work, no money, no way to survive,' Jean Edelince, 36 told the Los Angeles Times. 'There is no life for us in Tapachula.'
The US border has set up bus gates to process migrants into the US at Del Rio, Texas. More than 30,000 migrants have entered Del Rio since September 9
More than 12,000 are having their cases heard and 5,000 being processed at the border
