Second Migrant Caravan Moves Through Guatemala Toward Mexico

Central American migrants queue at a border connecting Guatemala and Mexico while waiting to cross into Mexico, in Talisman, Mexico, on Oct. 23, 2018. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

TAPACHULA/GUATEMALA CITY, Mexico—A group of more than a thousand Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Oct. 23, as the first caravan of migrants paused in southern Mexico on its planned journey toward the U.S. border.

President Donald Trump has vowed to begin cutting millions of dollars in aid to Central America and called the caravan in Mexico a national emergency as he seeks to boost his Republican Party’s chances in the Nov. 6 congressional elections.