Hundreds of migrants have been detained in a police crackdown in Mexico, the largest registered against a migrant caravan to date. Among the detainees were many women with their children trying to escape the poverty and violence in Central America.

The federal police and the immigration agents were going up to vans to the migrants who were in the tail of the caravan; made up of about 3000 people, who were advancing under a scorching sun by way of dirt road in Chiapas.

According to the Associated Press, some 500 migrants may have been detained before further deportation.