As the caravan resumed its slow advance Monday, still at least 1000 miles or farther from the U.S., the Pentagon announced it would send 5,200 active-duty troops to “harden” the border. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press)NILTEPEC, Mexico — The Latest on the caravan of migrants moving across southern Mexico (all times local):11:05 a.m.More than 1,000 migrants in a second caravan that forced its way across the river from Guatemala have now begun arriving in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula. Fifty-four-year-old Gerbert Hinestrosa of Santa Barbara in Honduras is traveling with his wife and teenage son. He says he realizes how hard it will be to make it to the U.S. border. ___9:45 a.m.A caravan of thousands of migrants is continuing its slow advance, setting off through Mexico’s narrow, windy isthmus for the Oaxaca state city of Juchitan, which was devastated by an earthquake in September last year.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2018 16:06 UTC