Migrant Caravan Detained in Old Factory, Across From Texas

Honduran migrants show a flag after singing their national anthem at a winery used as refuge in Piedras Negras, Coahuila State, Mexico, on Feb. 7, 2019. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico—A caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants was surrounded on Feb. 6 by Mexican authorities in an old factory a short distance from Texas, where they hoped to seek asylum even as U.S. authorities sent extra law enforcement and soldiers to stop them.

In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 5, President Donald Trump warned of migrant caravans and accused Mexican cities of busing migrants to the border “to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection.”