More than 400 Central American migrants crossed this Tuesday from Mexico to U.S. territory by El Paso, Texas, where they waited for hours before being driven by the Border Patrol to immigration positions to ask for asylum.
US President Donald Trump threatened this Monday to close permanently the Mexican border, one day after the U.S. authorities temporarily suspended access to the San Isidro border crossing, in California.
Groups of Central American migrant from about four caravan, advance in the Mexican territory, and their presence is reported from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Queretaro, Puebla, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Jalisco.
Representatives of the first caravan of Central American migrants, located in Mexico City, will meet this Thursday with President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
U.S. Secretary of State Security, Kirtsjen Nielsen, reiterated this Sunday to Central American migrants moving to the American southern border to desist, because they will not be welcome.
The Mexican Navy will apply a special operation in the southern border, with the purpose of deterring and impeding the passage of migrants, according to information from the Security Cabinet.
