Mexico government agrees to take hundreds of Central American migrants closer to the United States.
Guatemalan migration authorities say some 3,500 out of 4,000 people who had gathered in Vada Hondo have already been returned to Honduras, several hundred children among them.
It was the latest effort by Guatemalan authorities to push back the caravan, which authorities said numbered close to 9,000 people, within hours of its departure for the US from Honduras last week.
Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal died in a Texas hospital, two days after being taken into custody by border patrol agents in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. Her family denies official story she had not been given food or water for days.
The 6,000 migrants re-staying in a sports complex the Mexico city government first prepared for a third as many. Some are determined to wait while other already want to return home as conditions in the camp are worsening.
US authorities fire tear gas into Mexico to repel Central American caravan migrants approaching the US-Mexico border as US President Trump vents his anger on social media.
US President Donald Trump signs proclamation suspending granting of asylum to migrants who cross the US-Mexico illegally, as a US-bound migrant caravan resting in Mexico resumes its trek.
The caravan of migrants making its way through Mexico to the US became a major talking point for candidates and their stumpers during the US midterm campaigns.
Tempers among trekkers flare as they struggle with exhaustion, blisters, sickness and swollen feet after Veracruz Governor reneges on an offer to provide buses to leapfrog the migrants to the Mexican capital.
A caravan of mostly Hondurans, estimated to number between 3,500 and 7,000, who left their country in mid-October are now in southern Mexico.
Thousands of Central American migrants crossing Mexico toward the United States in a caravan have resumed their journey to US.
A caravan of Honduran migrants briefly halted its journey to rest in the southern town of Huixtla. The migrants face more than 1,000 miles to the closest US border crossing at McAllen, Texas.
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