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HISTORICAL FACTS: Mexican authorities clear makeshift migrant camp near u s border - The Untold Story

Belongings of migrants are scattered, after Mexican authorities cleared a makeshift camp, where hundreds of migrants heading towards the U.S. border were staying, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, February 6, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Mexican authorities on Sunday cleared a makeshift camp in the north of the country where hundreds of migrants heading towards the U.S. border had been holding out for more than a year in what rights organizations criticized as deplorable conditions.

Nearly 400 migrants have been transferred by bus to three different shelters near the border city of Tijuana, where they can remain "indefinitely," said the city's Mayor Montserrat Caballero.

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