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Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers

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A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. [AP Photo]

Migrants, mostly from Haiti, burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico on Monday, demanding papers.

Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and rushed into the office in the city of Tapachula, pushing past National Guard officers and police stationed at the office. Some of the migrants were trampled by their colleagues in the rush.

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