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A caravan of thousands of migrants continues to trudge through southern Mexico, with some saying they expect nothing good from a planned meeting between American and Mexican officials about the migrant surge at the U.S. border. The migrants passed by Mexico’s main inland immigration inspection point on Tuesday outside the town of Huixtla, in southern Chiapas state. National Guard officers there made no attempt to stop the estimated 6,000 migrants. In the past, Mexico has let them go through, hoping they would tire themselves out walking along the highway. But U.S. officials are expected to press Mexico to stop more migrants at a meeting scheduled for today
The migrants were trying to make it to the next town, Villa Comaltitlan, about 11 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of Huixtla. No migrant caravan has ever walked the 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the U.S. border.
