The caravan of several thousand Central American migrants resumed their march Saturday toward the U.S. border, departing Mexico’s capital city on a trek north to where troops have been deployed by President Trump to stop them.
The caravan, which now is made up of about 4,000 migrants, had been in Mexico City for the past four days resting before resuming their journey to the central Mexican city of Queretaro. The group began their trek by taking the city’s metro system to the outskirts before walking and hitching rides along a main highway.
When the group arrived in Queretaro, they were met by volunteers offering them tortillas, sandwiches and rice, according to the Associated Press. Local officials had prepared a stadium for the group’s arrival, and the migrants strung up tarps and tents to spend the night.
“I decided to come (with the caravan) to help my family,” Maria Yesenia Perez, who left La Ceiba, Honduras, nearly a month ago with her 8-year-old daughter, told the AP. – READ MORE