Experts: US election has nothing to do with itExperts say many factors are likely contributing to migrants' decisions to leave Central American countries. "Every day people leave for the United States," Fuentes said. The government took our lands," said Carlos Gomez, an out-of-work farmhand who said he's traveling to the United States to support his eight children back home. Such motivations have spurred migrants traveling north for years. "On the one hand, it's got to be something really bad to make you walk from Honduras to the United States," he said.

Source: CNN November 04, 2018 08:48 UTC