A huge caravan of about 5,000 migrants has started moving north toward the U.S. on foot from Mexico’s southern border.
The enormous group started making its way north on Monday, according to organizers and officials, walking in a long line along the highway. Migrants in the caravan hail from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Venezuela, one organizer said.
Police escorted the migrants at certain points, sometimes making sure they did not block the highway and sometimes preventing them from hitching rides.
They planned to spend the night in the town of Huehuetan, about 16 miles north of their starting point.
The migrants reported that they were tired of waiting for visas in the city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, where Mexico’s main migrant processing center is located, the Associated Press reported. Waits can stretch up to months …