Caravan migrants consider options
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Apr 05, 2018
4 minutes
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - Some people reclined under palm trees, while others drew water from a cistern for makeshift baths. As the sun beat down, a group of skinny kids kicked soccer balls across a field of parched grass.
After days on the road, trudging northward on foot and by bus, many of the roughly 1,000 migrants, mostly from Honduras, were hot and exhausted Wednesday as they camped out at a sports complex in Matias Romero, a small town in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.
And many of them were surprised that in recent days they have attracted the intense attention of President Donald Trump.
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