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An estimated 1,500 migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador started a month-long journey on Sunday to the United States, where they intend to seek political asylum. Organizers say the “refugee caravan” includes many women, unaccompanied minors, and entire families who are migrating through Mexico any way they can.
Their entire journey is more than 2,000 miles long.
“The turnout surprised all of us,” Rodrigo Abeja, a Mexico-based organizer with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigrant rights group behind the caravan, told Splinter. Abeja said the group’s most recent caravans last year only had about 450 migrants. About 80% of the migrants in this latest caravan are from Honduras; Abeja speculated that the swelling numbers could be due to recent political instability in that country.
The caravan comes just months after the Trump administration has called for a stricter vetting process for asylum seekers.
Abeja said the caravan has grown as migrants learn about the group as it journeys through Mexico.
So far, the critical mass of migrants marching through towns seems to be working. On Facebook, the group claimed the caravan is so large that MEXICAN IMMIGRATION officials on Sunday ABANDONED A CHECK POINT