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2nd migrant group seems set for new try to push into Mexico

2nd migrant group seems set for new try to push into Mexico

TAPANATEPEC, Mexico — Several hundred migrants appeared to be preparing for a second day of confrontations on a bridge between Mexico and Guatemala Monday as a much larger group of several thousand Central American migrants ahead of them resumed their trek through southern Mexico toward the United States.

While the large caravan advanced peacefully from the town of Tapantepec toward Santiago…

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TECUN UMAN, Guatemala | The Latest: Honduran migrant says he wants to return home

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala | The Latest: Honduran migrant says he wants to return home

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — The Latest on a caravan of Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States (all times local):

9:20 p.m. Migrant Gonzalo Martinez says he is voluntarily returning to Honduras from a bridge connecting Guatemala and Mexico because he was disappointed in the unruliness of caravan members and just wanted to head home.

“We thought the caravan was passive but there…

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CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico | Migrants vow to re-form caravan, continue north toward US

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico | Migrants vow to re-form caravan, continue north toward US

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — About 2,000 Central American migrants who circumvented Mexican police at a border bridge and swam, forded and floated across the river from Guatemala decided on Saturday to re-form their mass caravan and continue their trek northward toward the United States.

Gathered at a park in the border city of Ciudad Hidalgo, the migrants voted by a show of hands and then marched to…

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TECUN UMAN, Guatemala | Caravan migrants break Guatemala border fence, rush Mexico

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala | Caravan migrants break Guatemala border fence, rush Mexico

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — Central Americans traveling in a mass caravan broke through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory Friday, defying Mexican authorities’ entreaties for an orderly migration and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation.

Arriving on the Mexican side of a border bridge, they were met by a phalanx of police with riot…

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