More than 2,000 migrants march towards the US border in defiance of Trump

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More than 2,000 Hondurans have vowed to march north towards the US despite President Donald Trump’s warning to Mexican authorities not to allow migrants to cross its border from Guatemala.

The group said Saturday they will aim to get to the city of Tapachula in the morning after crossing the river to get into Mexico while others waited on a bridge  in hope they would be able to register as asylum seekers.

‘We don’t yet know if we will make it to the (US) border, but we are going to keep going as far as we can,’ Rodrigo Abeja told AFP.

A whopping 5,100 migrants have been registered in three shelters in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, while another 2,000 had camped out for the night in the town’s central square, said Gerardo Hernandez, head of the local government’s emergency services.

 


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