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The massive migrant caravan making its way through Mexico to the US border is the largest in more than a year — as it was revealed more than 730,000 asylum seekers have been encountered at the southern border since October alone.
The hordes of migrants — primarily from Cuba, Haiti and Honduras — set off for the United States on Sunday, walking more than nine miles from the Mexican southern border city Tapachula to get to Alvaro Obregón.
An estimated 8,000 asylum seekers are en route, marking the largest migrant caravan approaching the US since June 2022.
Their Christmas Eve dinner comprised sandwiches, a bottle of water and a banana handed out by a local church, and they spent Christmas night sleeping on cardboard or plastic under awnings and tents.
But radical migrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagran, who is accompanying the group, has warned that the caravan could grow to 15,000 people, carrying signs reading “Exodus from poverty,” by the time it reaches the border.
“We won’t stop — we’ll keep walking,’’ he vowed.