More than 2,000 migrants vowed to march north towards the US border in defiance of Donald Trump after risking a perilous river crossing to Mexico in makeshift rafts. Dozens of mothers and their youngsters ran forward when immigration officers unchained a gate that had been pinning back migrants at the crossing. They are marching to the river to convince the migrants still in Guatemala to cross. Some travelers, like 22-year-old Alex Benitez, paid locals to take him across the river border on a raft made from huge truck tires. 'I have been in constant contact with my foreign counterparts in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.

Source: Daily Mail October 21, 2018 01:30 UTC