Through the rain, scorching heat, and humidity,
thousands of migrants make the perilous journey through southern Mexico,
hoping to reach the United States.
It’s been called the largest Central American migrant caravan in decades,
and thousands more migrants are joining, fleeing dire conditions
in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
President Trump is sending 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border
and has threatened to take away aid from those countries
who haven’t done enough to stop the caravan.
Fanni, a single mother from Honduras, is accompanied by her two young daughters.
They have been travelling for the past 15 days.
Fanni has formed a new family that she met on the caravan.
They have named themselves the Lopez clan, after a family from a Mexican soap opera
called 'A Fortunate Family', or 'Una familia con Suerte.'
The migrants cover a distance of 120km every day,
the lucky ones hitching rides whenever possible.
To keep the migrants far away from the US border,
President Peña Nieto of Mexico made the migrants a conditional offer.
Those that register and stay in the regions of Chiapas and Oaxaca,
in southern Mexico,
will be given temporary refugee status, jobs, and schooling for their children.
Milton, Pancho, and Ale come from Tela on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.
Like so many others, they say that conditions in their country are unliveable.
and they want to find work and a better life in the United States.
The weather on Saturday was approaching 104F (40C).
In a rally that Friday evening, the migrants decide to reject the Mexican
government's offer to stay in Oaxaca or Chiapas
and to continue north towards the United States.
The next day, the migrants are met by a federal police blockade.
The authorities warn the migrants that they would not be allowed
to cross the Chiapas-Oaxaca border and go any further
and that busses were ready to take them to shelters and repatriate those who were ready to go home.
After negotiations between Mexican human rights groups and the federal police,
the caravan was allowed to continue.
Some migrants have turned themselves in to the authorities and are headed back to
their home countries.
But the majority continue northward, and thousands more are en route behind them
headed up through Mexico.