Migrant Caravan Advances North as US Officials Head to Mexico

Migrants walk in a caravan, some of them holding a banner reading "Exodus from Poverty," as an attempt to reach the U.S. border, in Huixtla, Mexico, on Dec. 26, 2023. Jose Torres/Reuters

Thousands of migrants moved slowly north across the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Tuesday in a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, one day before top U.S. officials planned to visit Mexico to discuss migration.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas will visit Mexico to meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.