A caravan of more than 3,000 migrants has arrived in a small town on the Mexico-Guatemala border, hoping to ultimately advance to the U.S. as President Trump threatens to deploy the military to the southern border and halt all crossings, both legal and illegal, if the caravan is not halted.
The migrants, weary after traveling for days, arrived in the small border town of Tecun Uman on buses and trucks early Thursday morning. Many were fed and housed in nearby migrant shelters run by local volunteers but the town could not accommodate everyone, the Associated Press reported.
"It was a great sacrifice, but it's all for a better life," Jonathan Pareles, 22, who arrived with his wife and two kids, told the AP. "It's not all good. We're wet and we still don't have a place to sleep."
A large police presence gathered on the Mexican side of the border early Thursday, toting barricades that had not yet been deployed.
Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to shutter the border entirely using military personnel, praised the Mexican response on Twitter Thursday.
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