Metapa (Mexico)-After US threat of impoing tariffs, Mexico blocked about 1000 Central American migrants along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday.
Migrants were headed for Tapachula from bordering city Ciudad Hidalgo.
Some migrants jumped the wire fences and ran into the thick forest beside highway while one young man collapsed and was taken to hospital.
A Honduran migrant, Angel said "We will try to get legal documents but maybe they are lying because we have seen buses taking people back and some friends have told us that they have been detained after being told that that they (authorities) will help them but it is not true, only God knows."
On the condition of anonymity, an immigration official said that migrants would initially be taken to an immigration detention center in Tapachula.
Migrant group included many women and children.
The action came after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican imports unless Mexico does more to stop the passage of migrants through its territory.
Mexico's Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard was in Washington to try to avoid tariffs on Mexican imports threatened by US .Many of the migrants say they're fleeing gang violence, oppressive extortion and corruption in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Mexico has responded by offering more options to stay legally on its territory, but most still have the ultimate goal of arriving in the US, where they can earn better pay and in many cases reunite with relatives.
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