Migrants protest in Mexico over deadly fire

Several thousand migrants are walking north from near the Guatemalan border in protest of a deadly fire that killed 40 at a border detention center last month and calling for Mexico to close its detention centers.

Seven of the migrants and activists accompanying them on Tuesday sewed their lips shut in protest over the lack of a government response to their request for dialogue. The migrants walked to the town of Huixtla, some 25 miles from Tapachula where they started their walk Sunday.

They are asking authorities to provide them with buses – there are many families with young children among them – or at least with temporary documents that would give them free transit through the country.