GUATEMALA CITY — The latest on the caravan of Central American migrants trying to advance toward the United States. (all times local):1:40 p.m.Mexico says it will ask the United Nations refugee office for help with the arrival of several thousand Honduran migrants at its southern border. ——8:30 a.m.Several thousand Honduran migrants who set out in a caravan hoping to reach the United States have passed through Guatemala City and now have their sights set on the border with Mexico. Enormous quantities of U.S. exports and imports and hundreds of thousands of people legally move across the border dailyMore than 2,000 Hondurans are in a migrant caravan trying to reach the United States. Many of the more than 2,000 Hondurans in a migrant caravan trying to wend its way to the United States are finding help from sympathetic Guatemalans even as local governments and U.S. President Donald Trump are trying to discourage them.

Source: National Post October 18, 2018 13:19 UTC