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Central American migrants who are taking part in a caravan towards the US, staying at a stadium-turned-shelter during a stop in their journey, in Mexico City on Nov. 7, 2018. (Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA, AFP / Getty Images)
MEXICO CITY – Central American migrants in a caravan plan to leave Mexico City early Friday to continue their long journey northward to the US-Mexico border even as the Trump administration moves forward with its plan to dramatically cut back immigrants' ability to request asylum.
The migrants voted late Thursday night to leave Mexico City, beginning at 6 am (EST), en route to the city of Queretaro, which is about 120 miles north of the Mexican capital. The migrants, who will be driving the United States to the United States of America. About 200 marches to a local office.
Supporters say the group is looking to go through a safer – albeit longer – route to Tijuana, which is at least 1,600 miles away from Queretaro.
The call to set out on Friday morning only hours after Trump administration des agents diciembre de los infos de la carta de los infocios de los infantes. The administration's move is expected to be challenged by immigrants and others.
Under U.S. law, migrants are allowed to come back to the United States of America. But the rules proposed by the administration would be the subject of an expedition, and they would be deportation proceedings instead, according to a posting by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security on the Federal Register late Thursday.
Trump is likely to sign a presidential proclamation as early as Friday outlining the asylum restrictions, which would kick-start the new rules.
When the last caravan reached the US in April, 401 presented themselves at ports of entry, to the United States, but to the United States, but to the United States, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Trump repeated his characterization of the caravan as "an invasion" to the U.S. when questioned by a reporter.
"I consider it an invasion, you and I have a difference of opinion," he told the reporter.
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News of the administration is on the way to migrants in the Caribbean, but did not seem to be dissuaded from giving up on their goal of getting to the U.S. southern border.
"I do not care what Donald Trump says," quipped Honduran migrant Jorge Lopez, 18, who plans to apply for asylum. "I'll go through the front door, but if they do not allow it, I'll enter whatever way I can."
López previously drove a tricycle taxi in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, one of the most violent cities in the hemisphere. He said he joined the caravan after tattooed gangsters gave him an ultimatum: join them as a hit man or else.
"I fled my country," López said on a chilly evening in Mexico City as he searched for a pair of crocs he had been given. "I can not return to Honduras. They'll kill me. "
Central American migrants have said they are determined to get to the U.S. border, citing rampant poverty and government corruption, in addition to gang violence and extortion they faced in their home countries.
To qualify for asylum, migrants must first pass a credible fear of persecution or torture interview at the border conducted by a U.S. immigration officer. Most migrants believe that they are in a state of poverty.
"There is not any work. There is a lot of poverty, "said Maria Lidia Romero, 17, who was traveling with her 6-month-old daughter, Lesli Danesi Romero.
The caravan had been paused in Mexico City since the first migrant started converging Saturday night on the capital – some 1,000 miles from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where the first of three caravans currently in Mexico originated on Oct. 12.
The migrants remain nearly 700 miles from the closest U.S. port of entry at Laredo, Texas, though they have cited Tijuana as being more likely to be in the United States.
Somewhere in the caravan raced to Mexico City – such as López, who found a trucker in the city of Veracruz. But many migrants expressed doubts about going it alone.
"If we were to go it alone, I'd be scared. But Joel Noriega, a Honduran heading north in hopes of "supporting my family."
Noriega had not heard of it, but it was not easy to do it.
"He says these things," he said, "But we'll take God's hand and hopefully get through."
The caravan's journey through Mexico has put outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in a bind because taking action against the migrants would appear to be acquiescing to Trump's demands. During his successful campaign, president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office in December, said Mexico would not do the dirty work of any foreign government. migrants choosing to stay in Mexico.
Peña Nieto announced a plan for caravan participants called, "You're home," which provided temporary work visas and access to health care and education. The majority of caravan participants declined, however, according to a statement from Mexico's interior ministry.
"Said Darwin Mejia, 29, an out-of-work construction worker who wanted the opportunity to earn dollars in the United States. "I hope they will give us permission to work. The person who will decide is God. We're putting ourselves in his hands. "
Mexico City, meanwhile, having visited the city, offering a meal and having a meal. Generous locals dropped off bundles of warm clothes, while barbers cut hair for free and mariachi bands serenaded the guests.
"We have been treated very well," Noriega said, "We've been given food clothes. We can not complain. "
At least two more caravans are currently traveling to Mexico City.
Christopher Gascon, the Mexico City Representative for the International Organization for Migration, estimated an estimated 4,000 migrants in the other caravans working their way through southern Mexico.
Mexico City government authorities told The Associated Press that nearly 5,000 migrants are being sheltered in the sports complex, with more than 1,700 migrants under the age of 18, including 310 children under age five.
The Mexican government told the AP that most of the migrants have refused to stay in Mexico, and only a small number have agreed to return to their home countries. About 85 percent of the migrants are from Honduras, while others are from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Contributing: Daniel Gonzalez, Arizona Republic; Associated Press
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