Tapachula: Mexican police spread on Sundays of caravans around 400, especially Central America, migrants who had hoped to walk to the US border.
Ending the fourth procession in a week, the police intercepted the group while preparing to leave the city of Huixtla in the South Chiapas state, AFP observed.
It was made mainly from the people of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti and Venezuela.
The police block the streets that tourists need to get out of the city to the north highway, make some other temporary arrests of the procession fled to Huixtla.
The police also took a position on the highway itself to keep the caravan from reform.
About 80 people were arrested in operation and will be deported, according to the source of the police.
A member of the National Guard was injured in the operation, the authorities said.
“We asked for asylum in Mexico, we did not want to go there (United States),” Alexander, a man traveling with his wife and grandson of eight years old, escaping violence at El Salvador, told AFP.
Like a recent caravan, this has departed from the city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala.
It happened in the midst of the heavy presence of Mexico National Guard bent to stop asylum seekers hoping to reach the United States for a better life.
UN activists and officials traveling with migrants said the police had used excessive strength to them.
Two migration agents were suspended for hitting a traveler.
The government said it would continue to maintain its policy to make the migrants bound from us from traveling through Mexico.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday he would send President Joe Biden to the letter to the proposal for the United States to provide a work visa to Central America and Mexico and overcome poverty and violence that helped trigger the flow of migration.
Mexico has seen more and more documented migrants leading north since Biden arrives at the White House promises a more human approach than former President Donald Trump.
In an effort to curb the entry, the Mexican government said it had mobilized more than 27,000 members of security forces along the south and north borders.