BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Central American migrants stranded on a journey through Mexico because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Mexican government say they will struggle on toward the United States, even as their ‘caravan’ said it would disband in Mexico City. Fearful of the risks to children among the bedraggled and tired knot of travelers, the organizers of the annual caravan, U.S.-based advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said it would end in the capital, not at the border as had been planned…Mujica said the group did not want to put children on freight trains, which are traditionally used to cover part of the journey to the border. Nicknamed ‘la bestia’ (the beast), the train is infamous for causing injury to migrants. Trump has lashed out at the caravan, accusing Mexico of failing to stop illegal immigrants heading to the border.”
–Delphine Schrank, “Central American ‘caravan’ to end in Mexico City, migrants defiant,” Reuters, April 4, 2018 1:21 pm