Latest migrant caravan begins arriving in southern Mexico
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico - Hundreds of U.S.-bound migrants in the latest caravan of Central Americans have arrived in southern Mexico, where authorities were processing them in an orderly fashion for temporary immigration status.
The migrants began reaching the Guatemalan-Mexican border late Wednesday, and by midday Thursday, scores were lining up on the bridge spanning the Suchiate River, which forms the international boundary between the two countries.
The calm scene stood in stark contrast to that at the same spot last October, when migrants from a previous caravan engaged in fierce clashes with Mexican police at the border. This time, no police were deployed and the migrants queued up calmly.
Some 2,000 migrants
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