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...TECUN UMAN, Guatemala - More than 200 mostly Honduran migrants rested on a bridge at the Guatemala-Mexico border waiting for the arrival of others and hoping sheer numbers will improve their chances of entering Mexico and continuing their journey north.
...Mexico's government has said migrants entering the country without registering will not be allowed to pass from the border area.
...Guatemalan officials had counted more than 3,000 migrants who registered at border crossings to enter that country in recent days and there were additional migrants who did not register.
...The migrants planned to set out again Saturday around 4 a.m.Meanwhile, Guatemala's human rights defender's office said there were a bit more than 1,000 migrants gathering at another point on the Mexican border far to the north in the Peten region and there were reports that Mexican forces were gathering on the other side of the border there.
...In Ciudad Hidalgo, Francisco Garduño, commissioner of Mexico's National Immigration Institute, was emphatic that migrants who try to enter the country irregularly would go no farther.
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