Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico scramble for asylum applications

TAPACHULA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Around 1,000 migrants flocked to a sports stadium in southern Mexico on Tuesday to claim appointments for requesting asylum in the country as the national refugee agency grapples with surging demand that has overwhelmed capacity.

Thousands of other migrants have amassed in the city of Tapachula bordering Guatemala, often waiting months for responses to their asylum applications, a limbo that many migrants without jobs or money find intolerable.

Large numbers of Haitian migrants made their way to Del Rio, Texas, this month, forming a camp of 14,000 people just . . .