5000 Honduran migrants march to US as Donald Trump vows to halt them
- Growing throng of Central American migrants resume advance toward the US border
- They overwhelmed Mexican government attempts to stop them at border
Thousands of Honduran migrants whose trek toward the United States has triggered a series of tirades from US President Donald Trump resumed their long march Sunday after crossing a river into Mexico.
Mexican authorities had managed to block the “caravan” of migrants on a border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala, but many later forged the river below using makeshift rafts - regrouping early Sunday to march north.
Trump said “full efforts” were underway to halt the caravan’s progress toward the United States.
“Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther(n) Border,” Trump tweeted.
“People have to apply for asylum in Mexico first, and if they fail to do that, the US will turn them away.”
Nevertheless, around 3,000 people were marching in the caravan on the Mexican side, according to an estimate from a federal police commander whose forces were closely monitoring the migrants’ progress.