Tens of thousands of migrants from more than 100 countries – nearly half of them hailing from the devastated island of Haiti- have been stranded for months in Tapachula, near the Mexican border with Guatemala. The Mexican government has promised asylum status and employment for the migrants, but they complain that the procedures to apply for asylum in Mexico are lengthy, slow and bureaucratic. Meanwhile, activists say Mexican immigration authorities have become a deportation machine for immigrants. Francisco Barradas reports from Tapachula, Chiapas.
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