Migrants given shelter in Mexico City as others continue journey to border
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(4 Nov 2018) Thousands of wary Central American migrants resumed their push toward the United States on Sunday, entering a treacherous part of the caravan's journey as they trek through one of Mexico's deadliest states. More than 4,000 migrants are now headed along what some called the "route of death" toward the town of Cordoba, Veracruz, which is about 124 miles (200 kilometres) up the road from their last resting place. The day's hike will be one of the longest yet, as the exhausted group of travellers tried to make progress any way it can to the US border still hundreds of miles away. Others, who set out on their own, began arriving in Mexico City and Puebla on Sunday after the group was beset by divisions between migrants and caravan organisers. Some 500 migrants arrived in the capital, where they received blankets and food, and were led to a stadium adapted as a shelter, where they can wait for their companions to join them. Some were disappointed after organisers unsuccessfully pleaded for buses after three weeks on the road. Others were angry for being directed northward through the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, calling it the "route of death". The capital could serve as a better launching pad for reaching a broader array of destinations along the US border. Mexico now faces the unprecedented situation of having three caravans stretched over 300 miles (500 kilometres) of highway in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz. The Interior Ministry estimated on Saturday that there were more than 5,000 migrants currently moving through southern Mexico via caravan or in smaller groups. Ordinary Mexicans continue to help the migrants. Members of the Benemerito Juarez community in Oaxaca on Sunday made tacos, filled water bottles and carried fruit and clothes to weary travellers resting at the roadside. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/100f55ddbd2b4282e5e2d6278c5ab979
