CLOSE Drone footage shows from above some of the several thousand Central Americans, mostly Hondurans, that have been trekking in a caravan through southern Mexico with hopes of reaching the United States. (Nov. 2) AP Salvadorian migrants heading in a caravan to the US, cross the Suchiate River to Mexico, as seen from Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on Nov. 02, 2018. According to the Salvadorian General Migration Directorate, over 1,700 Salvadorians left the country in two caravans and entered Guatemala Wednesday, in an attempt to reach the US. (Photo: Marvin Recinos, AFP/Getty Images) SAYULA DE ALEMAN, MEXICO — The caravan of migrants — the group that has roiled the United States during midterm elections season — crossed into the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz at a roadway construction stop. Women and children ambled along. Fathers pushed toddlers in strollers. Young men, meanwhile, sat atop tanker trunks transiting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, clung to the sides of semi-trucks and claimed coveted spots on flatbed trailers and pickup beds. “Make space for women and children,” Claudia Coello, a grandmother traveling with two adult sons, two daughters-in-law and a grandchild, yelled at the young men pushing ahead of her to board an agricultural vehicle stuck waiting. “The women and children walk, the men ride like they’re kings,” she commented sourly. “They don’t give us a chance.” The caravan arrangement offers few comforts for the thousands of Central Americans trekking through Mexico with the goal of reaching the U.S. border, perhaps at Tijuana. The migrants are still weeks away and at least 900 miles from the nearest U.S. border entry. Yet few seem deterred by fatigue, blisters, extreme heat during the day and torrential rains at night as they sleep in the open air. CLOSE Despite days of walking, illness, and uncertainty, Honduran native Joel Eduardo Espinar is determined to continue the arduous trek with his wife and children as part of a migrant caravan winding its way through Mexico toward the U.S. border. (Nov 2) AP The Mexican government says about 2,900 migrants arriving in caravans have applied for asylum, while another 900 have asked to be repatriated. But thousands more are pushing toward the U.S. border, preferring to risk an uncertain welcome in the United States rather than stay in Mexico — where the government has offered them tempora
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