Garrido said the latest caravan will likely pick up even more people from El Salvador and Guatemala as it heads toward Mexico.

...risking almost certain detention by U.S. authorities but hoping the illegal entry will allow them to apply for asylum.

Tijuana officials prepared Wednesday for the caravan to double to more than 6,000 people

The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.

The 5,800 troops who were rushed to the southwest border amid President Donald Trump’s pre-election warnings about a refugee caravan will start coming home as early as this week — just as some of those migrants are beginning to arrive.

The group from El Salvador was at least the fourth caravan to set off since a first, large-scale mobilization in neighboring Honduras

“If I was ever going to do a shutdown over border security — when you look at the caravan, when you look at the mess, when you look at the people coming in,” the president said. “. . . This would be a very good time to do a shutdown.”

But photos taken Monday of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents training weeks before a potential arrival of a caravan of Central Americans reveal a southern border already militarized — even before the arrival of thousands of active-duty soldiers.

...in response to caravans of Central American migrants making their way northward, doubling the figure Pentagon officials have announced would be operating there.

Trump’s vows to end birthright citizenship and dispatch a growing number of troops to the border have scrambled the final days of the midterm campaign for both parties

Holding guns and wearing face masks, officers marched over one of the busiest international crossings. Advocates say it’s intimidation, not preparation for unarmed poor people.

Days ahead of crucial midterm elections, the talk is not of better days or a brighter future. Instead, the climate is one of fear, of threat and of division, of caravans from Central America and angry mobs.

Trump threatened to declare a national emergency or rescind aid from the countries whose people are journeying north.

More than 150 migrants, part of a caravan that once numbered about 1,200 and headed north in March from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, were prepared to seek asylum from United States immigration officials.

...to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America

...he is likely reacting to a story broadcast by Fox News on Sunday morning about a caravan of migrants crossing Mexico, reportedly heading for the border.