Pope Francis, (pictured), has donated half a million dollars in aid for migrants apprehended along the U.S. - Mexico border

Pope Francis has donated half a million dollars in aid for migrants apprehended along the U.S. - Mexico border.

The funds will be distributed among 27 projects promoted by sixteen Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, which requested assistance in continuing to provide food, lodging, and basic necessities to the migrants.

Vatican News claimed the aid would specifically help more than 75,000 people who arrived in Mexico in 2018 as part of six migrant caravans.

The funding comes as more than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country's resources to the limit.

Peter's Pences provided the funding, which allows the Pontiff with the financial means to help those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease.

In a statement Peter's Pence said: 'In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having traveled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

'Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United States. However, the US border remains closed to them.'

The Catholic Church currently hosts thousands of migrants in hotels within the dioceses or religious congregations, providing basic necessities, from housing to clothing.

The Pontiff's donation comes as more than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening. The are pictured demanding better conditions or that they be transferred to another center in Tapachula, Chiapas State

'All these people were stranded, unable to enter the United States, without a home or livelihood', the statement added.

Meanwhile authorities are currently looking for 600 mostly Cuban migrants who broke out of a detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state.

Migrants from Cuba, who make up the majority of the people being held at the center, were largely behind the breakout, the institute added.

Immigration agents at the facility were unarmed and unable to intervene, according to officials.

Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that Haitians and Central Americans were also among those who fled the facility, which has been crammed with people.

Mexico has returned 15,000 migrants in the past 30 days, officials have said, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to stem the flow of people north.

On Wednesday Trump reiterated threats to close part of the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico doesn't block what described as a new caravan of migrants headed north.

The majority of migrants moving through Mexico are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, but Cubans are also joining in large numbers. More than 1,000 people from Cuba are now in Chiapas, according to Mexican officials.

A migrant child calls out to a street vendor selling water as he waits with other children inside an area of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid office on Friday

A Haitian migrant waits to get a humanitarian visa granted by the National Migration Institute (INM) outside a detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas on Friday

Mexico's National Immigration Institute said in a statement that though they originally reported that 1,300 escapees fled on April 25, only 645 migrants actually had.

They added that 35 of those who escaped had now returned, but didn't offer any explanation as to why they suddenly lowered their forecasted figures.

Hours after the mass escape, 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 border with Guatemala, reported seeing hundreds of migrants running through the streets late Thursday, some only half dressed, some cramming themselves into passing minivans to escape.

Pope Francis, (left), uses a fund to help those living in suffering due to war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease. News of the donation comes as Donald Trump, (right), threatened to close part of the U.S.- Mexico border if Mexico

In January 2017, the outgoing administration of U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped longstanding rules under which Cubans who reached American soil were automatically allowed to apply to remain.

The end of the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy means U.S. immigration authorities now treat Cubans more like immigrants from other countries, although Cubans still are more likely to be granted asylum.

Cubans also still retain the right to apply for residency after a year in the U.S., a privilege other nationalities do not receive.

Meanwhile, Mexico expressed fresh concern to the United States Friday about delays in the movement of goods and people across their border, after becoming Washington's biggest trade partner for the first time earlier this year.

A Federal Police officer stands guard outside an immigration detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state

A group of Haitian migrants wait to get humanitarian visas granted by the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM) outside a detention center in Tapachula

The diplomatic note from the foreign ministry is the latest sign of tension between the north American neighbors since President Donald Trump last month threatened to close the border if Mexico didn't stop illegal immigrants from reaching the US.

'During the month of April there has been an economic impact to Mexican and American companies caused by the delays in customs,' the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The situation on the border 'negatively impacts trade as well as the sources of employment and consumers in both countries,' it said.

According to the Foreign Ministry, in the first two months of the year Mexico was "for the first time in history" the main trading partner of the United States, with goods worth $97 billion changing hands.

Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that from January to November 2018, bilateral trade was worth $527 billion.

Some 80 percent of Mexico's exports are to the United States.