(CBN News) – Hundreds of asylum seekers have finished their nearly month-long trek through Central America and are now arriving at the southern border of the United States. Mexican authorities said a group of 357 Central Americans traveling in the caravan arrived in Tijuana Tuesday, and another group of 398 arrived Wednesday. Thousands more are arriving Thursday and in the coming days. Hundreds of them have arrived by bus, flooding the city’s crowded shelters.
Some of them immediately went to a stretch of border fence with the United States to celebrate, scaling the fence chanting, “Yes, we could!” Mexican authorities said they offered to take the migrants to shelters immediately, but they initially refused. Mexico also has offered asylum to them, but many have refused that as well, instead hoping to gain access to the United States. Border Patrol agents with machine guns are guarding the US side of the border. They’re being assisted by 5,800 active duty US troops as well. READ MORE
