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Mexicans from religious organizations hand out small bags containing water, toilet paper, diapers and medicine to Central American migrants who got a free ride from a motorist, in Xochiltepec, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Motorists in pickups and other vehicles have been offering the Central American migrants rides, often in overloaded truck beds, as the group of about 7,000 people heads to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)


TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — The latest on the caravan of Central Americans trying to reach the United States (all times local):
6:30 p.m.

The first waves of Central Americans in a huge migrant caravan have begun arriving in the southern Mexico town of Huixtla after an exhausting eight-hour walk.

The first to arrive are quickly staking out grassy spots in the town square where they will sleep Monday night.

Marlon Anibal Castellanos is a 27-year-old former bus driver from San Pedro Sula in Honduras. He roped a bit of plastic tarp to a tree to shelter his wife, 6-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter.

Castellanos says the family walked for six hours until they could go no farther and then paid a passing van 25 pesos ($12) to take them the rest of the way.

He says there are no ambulances if the kids should pass out in the heat and no medical care to speak of in the middle of the countryside.

In his words: “It’s hard to travel with children.”
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2 p.m.
A spokesman for El Salvador’s president says the government hopes that tensions over a migrant caravan advancing through Mexico with a goal of reaching the U.S. border decrease after the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 6.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday via Twitter that El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala had failed to stop people from leaving their countries. He added: “We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.”
Roberto Lorenzana said that El Salvador did what it could, but the caravan did not cross through its territory.
Lorenzana expressed “confidence in the maturity of United States authorities to continue strengthening a positive relationship with our country.”
He said El Salvador has significantly reduced violence, which was driving migrants, and that the flow of Salvadoran migrants has dropped 60 percent in two years.
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1:55 p.m.
The United Nations is estimating that the caravan of Central American migrants making their way through southern Mexico currently comprises more than 7,200 people.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq gave the estimate to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York Monday. He said the International Organization for Migration reported that large numbers of people were still arriving in Mexico and “are likely to remain in the country for an extended period.”
Haq said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed to leaders in the region over the weekend that they need to work with IOM and the U.N. refugee agency, which are both assisting different countries right now.
Haq said UNHCR dispatched an emergency team and now has 32 people in the Mexican towns of Ciudad Hidalgo and Tapachula near the Guatemala border.
He said that number will increase to ensure that members of the caravan have information on Mexico’s asylum system, as well as legal advice and humanitarian assistance for those who seek asylum.
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1:45 p.m.
Thousands of Central American migrants have resumed their march north through Mexico toward the United States, though they’re still a long way away.
The migrants began to leave the southern city of Tapachula under a burning sun Monday afternoon, bound for Huixtla about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away.
Twenty-eight-year-old Carlos Leonidas Garcia Urbina from Tocoa, Honduras, says he was cutting the grass in his father’s yard when he heard about the caravan.
He says he dropped the shears right there and ran to join it with just 500 lempiras ($20) in his pocket.
Motioning to his fellow travelers in the caravan, he said: “We are going to the promised land.”
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12:35 p.m.
An immigrant rights activist traveling with the caravan of Central American migrants is accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of using the group of thousands to stir up his base before the U.S. midterm elections.
Irineo Mujica of the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras says “It is a shame that a president so powerful uses this caravan for political ends.”
He says there are two things responsible for the migration: “hunger and death.”
He says “no one is capable of organizing this many people. Nobody. It’s an exodus.”
Pueblo Sin Fronteras is a group that tries to provide humanitarian aid to migrants.
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10:20 a.m.
A Honduran-born leader of the migrant caravan trying to make its way through Mexico says U.S. President Donald Trump should stop accusing the caravan of harboring terrorists.
Denis Omar Contreras says, “There isn’t a single terrorist here.”
He said Monday all of those involved are from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. And he adds, “As far as I know there are no terrorists in these four countries, at least beyond the corrupt governments.”
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8:20 a.m.
U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. will begin “cutting off, or substantially reducing” aid to three Central American nations over a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. southern border.
Trump tweets: “Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S.”
The three countries combined received more than $500 million in funding from the U.S. in fiscal year 2017.
Trump has raised alarm over a group of thousands of migrants traveling through Mexico to the U.S., saying, “Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan.”
He adds: “I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy.” White House officials could not immediately provide details.
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5 a.m.
Thousands of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. have stretched out on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and public plazas in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, worn down by another day’s march under a blazing sun.
They’ve been keeping together for strength and safety in numbers.
Some huddled under a metal roof in the city’s main plaza Sunday night. Others lay exhausted in the open air, with only thin sheets of plastic to protect them from ground soggy from an intense evening shower. Some didn’t even have a bit of plastic yet.
The group’s advance has drawn strong criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, who lashed out again Sunday at the Democratic Party over what he apparently sees as a winning issue for Republicans a little over two weeks ahead of midterm elections.

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A post from a person on Yahoo whose neighborhood has been overrun by ILLEGAL ALIENS and destroyed it.

They WILL destroy yours too.

BOOT THEM ALL OUT!!!


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Allison 1 day ago
I cant speak about living next to Hondurans or Guatemalans but I can tell you what has happened in my old neighbor hoods that have been invaded and inhabited by Mexicans. It was a just a normal neighborhood where people kept their houses neat and yards nice with no trash in the streets.

Then the illegals overran it. My comments might not be PC but they ARE NOT racist. Now until it happens to your neighborhood and town you don’t know what your in for. These people are turning our country into a ghetto. They do not like or are not used to clean neighborhoods, streets, sidewalks, parks, and shopping centers.

Soon your nice clean and orderly neighborhoods and towns will resemble these peoples homeland.

Each house will have as many family members as they can squeeze in to it, grandparents, uncles, nieces, and cousins. They will have dozens of people parking and partying at their house on weekends and have the same mexican song blaring all night with no regard for anyone else living near by.

Graffiti will be on all the fences, super markets, schools and highway bridges and gas station pumps. None of them will have driver’s licenses or insurance for their cars and they will scrape off the registration stickers from other cars and put them on theirs. The idiots will race up and down your neighborhood in their Honda civics.

Your neighborhood will have under age girls pushing their babies in strollers along the dirty sidewalks heading to the welfare office to collect their single parent checks and food stamps. They are taught to pump out anchor babies for pay raises in their welfare checks. The boy friends of these babies will be living in the same house with them without the social services knowing.

The ones that get a hold of forged S.S. cards will get jobs at the local fast food restaurant. Others will sell tacos and tamales from carts with no license or health certificates and the city will do nothing about it. The older ones will hand paint a old U-haul truck bright yellow to use as a traveling supermarket to drive around your neighborhood.

Others will use their yard to work on cars, There will be car engines and body parts strewn all over the driveway. The ones that do not want a normal job will come home each day after “work” to display to all of the other family members their car stereos. They will vote in their Hispanic comrades into the city counsel that will vote for any issue that will benefit them including low income housing in Apt complexes.

Home and car break-ins will increase dramatically and it will be a free for all at your local Walmart. They will use the emergency room at your local hospital and give fake names and addresses and not pay a penny. They will turn their backyard into a farm with chickens and roosters and have annoying yipping cha wah wahs (sp) and pit bulls running wild in the neighborhood.

The kids that go to your school for free will be so far behind the other kids that they will require most of the teacher’s attention at your children’s expense. Your schools GPA will gradually decline to where the state will cancel funding for the school and blame the teachers until the GPA raises. This is what will happen to your neighborhood and town when they arrive and destroy it.

They do not care one bit about you, our way of life or our laws. Since our “Leaders” pander to them it’s only going to get worse. If you own a house in the neighborhood when the first ones arrive put it up for sale immediately, Believe me you have got to leave as it will get worse very fast. Think I am making this up? I have seen it with my own eyes. Wait and see is all I can say.

They also TAKE as many free clothes as they can get from Churches and then sell them at swap meets.

We do NOT want these people in our country or on our soil

Deport every last man, woman and child and deport DACA and their DAPA parents!