Migrants camp out on Mexico City streets in journey to US

Hundreds of migrants took shelter in flimsy tents near a bus terminal in Mexico City as they sought to reach the United States. Around 9,000 migrants arrived daily at Mexico's southern border, about 3,000 of whom had traversed the Darien Gap, a dense jungle between Colombia and Panama.

Another 8,000 arrived at the northern border with the United States every day. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has requested a bilateral meeting with his US counterpart to discuss the migration crisis that has "overwhelmed" his country. Most migrants come from Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala and Honduras.