Hours after mass escape, migrants chant for food, freedom

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Hours after a mass escape from an immigration detention center in southern Mexico, throngs of detained migrants raised their fists in the air Friday and chanted “We want food! We want out!”
It was the largest mass escape from a Mexican immigration center in memory and the latest example of how the government has become overloaded by a flood of Central American, Cuban and Haitian immigrants.
Residents of Tapachula, a city on Mexico’s southern borde