Quite an exclusive yet heart bleeding scenario took place during the protest for demanding rights to move freely in Mexico. Around a dozen undocumented migrants sew their mouths shut Mexico’s southern border sewed in a bid to convince the country’s immigration authority to grant them passage permission to the United States border.

The action was seen and the photos got spread while they were doing it. The migrants were pictured using needles and plastic threats to seal their lips, leaving a small space for the consumption of liquids to keep the protest going on. 

Irineo Mujica, an activist at the demonstration told, ‘The migrants are sewing their lips together as a sign of protest.’

‘We hope that the National Migration Institute can see that they are bleeding, that they are human beings.’

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Thousands of migrants have been waiting for several months for papers allowing them to travel freely across the country, in the city of Tapachula near Guatemala. where the action took place on Mexico’s border. 

The Mexican migration agency described the scenes as worrying, expressing concern saying that, ‘the extreme measures have been carried out with the consent and support of those who call themselves their representatives, to pressure authorities on an attention already provided.’ 

According to authorities more than 100 applications a day in Tapachula alone are being received and were prioritizing children, pregnant women, elderly people, and those with disabilities.

Mexico reported an 87 percent rise in asylum applications last year, mainly from Honduras and Haiti.