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A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador and crossed into Guatemala, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks.
The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital San Salvador on Sunday. A larger group of mostly Hondurans, estimated to number between 3,500 and 7,000, who left their country in mid-October and are now in southern Mexico, has become a key issue in US congressional elections.
A third group broke through a gate at the Guatemala border with Mexico in Tecun Uman on Sunday, and clashed with police.
Local first responders said that security forces used rubber bullets against the migrants, and that one person, Honduran Henry Adalid, 26, was killed.
Six police officers were injured, said Beatriz Marroquin, the director of health for the Retalhuleu region.
Mexico’s Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said that federal police did not have any weapons, even to fire plastic bullets.

He said that some of the migrants had guns while others had petrol bombs, and this information had been passed on to other Central American governments.
Guatemala’s government said that it regrets that the migrants didn’t take the opportunity of dialogue and instead threw stones and glass bottles at police.
Trump calls US-bound migrant caravan from Central America a national emergency
US President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have sought to make immigration a major issue ahead of November 6 elections, in which the party is battling to keep control of Congress.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Fox News Sunday said Trump was determined to use every authority he had to stop immigrants from crossing the border illegally.
“We have a crisis at the border right now … This caravan is one iteration of that but frankly we essentially see caravans every day with these numbers,” she said.

“I think what the president is making clear is every possible action, authority, executive programme, is on the table to consider, to ensure that it is clear that there is a right and legal way to come to this country and no other ways will be tolerated,” Nielsen added.
Trump has threatened to shut down the border with Mexico and last week said he would send troops. On Friday, Defence Secretary James Mattis authorised the use of troops and other military resources at the US-Mexico border.
Mexican stand-off: migrant caravan stuck on bridge in Guatemala after storming border
By Sunday evening, hundreds of the Salvadorans had crossed the border into Guatemala, having walked and hitched rides in pickups and on buses from the capital.
They organised using social networks like Facebook and WhatsApp over the last couple of weeks, inspired by the larger group in Mexico.
In Mexico, the original group of Hondurans, exhausted by constant travel in blistering heat, spent Sunday resting up in the town of Tapanatepec, Oaxaca.
An estimated 2,300 children were travelling with the migrant caravan, Unicef said in a statement, adding that they needed protection and access to essential services like health care, clean water and sanitation.


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A new migrant caravan is making its way to the United States

Salvadoran migrants gather in a caravan to start their journey towards the United States. Photo: AFP

Mounted Border Patrol officers patrol before US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen inaugurates the first completed section of President Trump’s 30-foot border wall in the El Centro Sector, at the US Mexico border in Calexico, California on October 26, 2018. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP)

Central American migrants run from Mexican authorities during clashes on a border bridge that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. A new group of migrants, who called themselves a second caravan, gathered on a bridge after forcing their way through a gate at the Guatemalan end. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

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Migrants say they are fleeing violence, corruption and unemployment
Trump and fellow Republicans have sought to make immigration a major issue ahead of November 6 elections



A caravan of an estimated 300 migrants departed El Salvador for the United States, sparked by a similar group from Honduras that is making its way through Mexico.


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A new migrant caravan is making its way to the United States

Migrants say they are fleeing violence, corruption and unemployment Trump and fellow Republicans have sought to make immigration a major issue ahead of November 6 elections

Migrants say they are fleeing violence, corruption and unemployment

Trump and fellow Republicans have sought to make immigration a major issue ahead of November 6 elections