TECUN UMAN Guatemala (AP) – The head of Mexico’s federal police says that they have achieved their first objective of preventing a violent breach of the border by some 3,000 migrants trying to enter from Guatemala.
Manelich Castilla told Foro TV the migrants will enter in an orderly fashion.
“It will be under the conditions that have been said since the start: orderly, with established procedures, never through violence nor by force,” Castilla said from the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo.
Police deployed pepper spray after some migrants tried to push their way through the Mexican side.
Some migrants are now forming lines on the bridge while others are sitting down and preparing for a long wait.
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