300 migrants in south Mexico head north

TAPACHULA, Mexico -- About 300 migrants walked out of the southern Mexican city Wednesday, hoping to move north, even as the activist who helped organize them remained in police custody over claims of human trafficking.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Luis García Villagrán, the leader of a local nongovernmental organization arrested Tuesday in Tapachula, "is not an activist." She said he was tied to trafficking people -- "That is the crime."

The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, earlier Wednesday was small in comparison with migrant caravans in years past. Those walking Wednesday said their destination was not the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for m

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