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A Honduran migrant protects his son after other members of the caravan have demolished a border fence on the Guatemalan side.
"In Honduras, we are afraid of starving or being killed by gangs, so when I heard about the migrant caravan, I dared to leave everything."
Antonio García is one of the thousands of Hondurans who have engaged the march to try to reach the United States.
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Every migrant has a story. And the majority is dramatic.
Thus, thousands and thousands of personal dramas rage on Friday to in Tecún Uman, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala .
The migrant caravan, which has left most of Honduras, has crossed the containment barrier of the bridge that spans the broad Suchiate River, the natural border between the two countries.
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The fence that separates the border from the Guatemalan side did not contain the caravan.
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Thousands of people arrived at the border between Guatemala and Mexico.
"Mexico, Mexico," they chanted happily, thinking that the country's authorities would let them follow their path towards what they consider to be a better life in the United States.
"Welcome" says a sign on the bridge that crossed them.
Migrants, including elderly people, children and pregnant women, ran across the bridge and got drunk with the excitement of leaving Guatemala.
- Hundreds of migrants cross the barrier between tension and riots on the border between Guatemala and Mexico
But they did not know what was waiting for them on the other side: Hundreds of police officers Mexican feds armed with shields and sticks. ]
There were shocks and thrusts with the security forces. The police fired tear gas, immigrants, stones.
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Under the Sign of "Welcome to Mexico", a Strong Deployment of Police Forces Prevented the entry of immigrants.
Chaos has been seized of the situation for a long time. Panic broke out and some people had a nervous breakdown.
"My daughter has fainted from fatigue, fear and suffocation to be among so many people" says María García, an unmarried mother who wants one 9-year-old girl realizes her dream of becoming a pediatrician and states that it is difficult in Honduras because she is poor.
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Migrants have congested the bridge serving as a border.
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Poverty and gang violence are the two most cited reasons for leaving their country, their family and all their belongings.
"We only want a job, that's the only thing we asked for. We are good people, but in our country, there are no opportunities ", says a woman with three children who prefers not to give her name.
He says that in Honduras he can not find work. "In addition, the little that we earn always wins the risk of being taken away by the gangs, otherwise they kill you, they have already murdered a brother".
Francisca, a street vendor who travels with one of her five children, also claims to be a widow because the gang members killed her husband with stones.
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" I want to go to the United States to work there and pay the stimulator that my mother needs ," says one of the migrants in charge of the bars who prevents them from entering the United States. Mexico.
Many say they heard about the caravan in the Honduran media and decided to join it. Some have been traveling for a week. Others have started the trip in recent days.
Broken on the bridge
After the tension, the security forces took control of the situation and managed to contain it between the bars. Thousands of migrants had been waiting on the bridge for hours.
And they were like that, stuck between Guatemala and Mexico. Hours in the open, desperate.
Tired and hungry, some arrived after walking hundreds of miles in the rain and heat, eating and sleeping as best they could. Most wear only what they can carry: a few extra clothes and a little water.
Many say that in Guatemala they were treated very well : people gave them shelter and food.
"I want to get a job in the United States to pay for the pacemaker my mother needs."
"Mexico, for humanity, let's go, do not treat us like the United States treat you!", He cried with a voice between rage and despair, a man climbed on the bars .
But Mexico was pressured by Donald Trump, of the United States of America, who asked him to stop the caravan.
Otherwise, he warned, it would close the border and cut off economic aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The Mexican authorities reiterated that they would allow migrants with a visa to pbad, as requested by Honduran citizens, and that they would carry out the procedures for those who wished to apply for the status of refugee.
To speed up the process, he asked for help from UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.
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Migrants shouted to let them pbad.
But many are those who have no documents and are forced to try to avoid migration. Some of the younger ones dared to climb the gates of the bridge and jump to the river.
The Suchiate, during the dry season, reaches the knee and can be crossed on foot, but it is cultivated by rains. Nevertheless, jumping was a dangerous maneuver, as the bridge was more than six meters high. Some of those who hurled themselves in limping
The only woman who jumped, a twenty-year-old student who prefers not to pronounce her name, says that she only wants "a decent job that it is impossible to obtain in Honduras ".
"Migration is not a crime"
"Mexico applies a containment policy of not letting the majority pbad," said Edgar Corzo Sosa, of the National Commission for Human Rights. Man, at BBC World.
In the beginning, they brought in 50 people who had applied for asylum. Subsequently, an agreement was reached for mothers and children to go to a shelter in Tapachula, a nearby town.
So there were six buses full of people who accepted this measure, though, a lot of mistrust of the Mexican authorities and fear of being deported.
Corzo insists that "in Mexico, migration is not a crime, but an administrative fault".
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Many migrants report being treated very well in Guatemala.
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When traveling, there were families with children.
"This crisis has a humanitarian face, first and foremost, human rights must be protected."
His team documented that it was a migration whose dimensions "had never been seen before".
Edgar Corzo Sosa believes that "Mexico must be in harmony: what it asks the United States, is that it has to do with migrants from Central America ".
Hours go by and the needs of migrants increase. They are preparing to sleep on the deck, in the open air. During the last hours of the day, the government activated the Naval Plan to provide humanitarian badistance such as food or medical care.
"We will not come back, we will not be able to We left everything in Honduras and we fought for the only thing left: life ", he says on the bridge Jorge Rodríguez .
For the night, the immigrants closest to the fence on the Mexican side are preparing to spend hours without any comfort. They are so many and so close to each other that they have to get up: they can not even sit down.
The cries of babies and children do not stop.
"Please, we must go, we beg for help", do you hear from the other side of the fence. The police, who are also tired, have more space and some have slept on their shields.
Although not being loud, it is starting to rain.
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