[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - A group of 800 Central Americans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Cubans were broken up by Mexican border agents and police early Monday morning
- The standoff took place early Monday morning in the town of Huixtla about 25 miles from a basketball court in Tapachula where they were held for processing
- This is at least the fourth caravan that officials have raided in recent days
- Haitian immigrants, many who have been waiting in Tapachula for months while their asylum requests are processed, have ramped up protests in recent weeks
- Tapachula's migrant shelters are currently full - of 77,000 applications for protected status in Mexico, 55,000 applicants were waiting in Tapachula
- Frustration with unsanitary living conditions and an inability to work legally led the group to try to bypass the legal process
- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that containing Central American migrants is untenable without investment in their countries
- He said he would urge US President Joe Biden to invest in his proposed development plan for Central America and Southern Mexico
- 'We cannot just be detaining, holding back, we must address the causes,' he said
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