A group of 3,000 migrants will travel from Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala to Mexico City to protest the conditions that led to 40 people dying in a fire at a government-run detention center, Politico reports.
The migrants–mainly Central Americans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Ecuadorans and Colombians–will likely try to reach the US border after making their grievances heard at the Mexican capitol. Tens of thousands of migrants are backed up at the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, where officials are blocking their migration north using transit restrictions and setting up checkpoints to confirm documentation multiple times.