Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, México (AP) — Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border. Some hoped to make it before the November elections because they fear Donald Trump will close the border to asylum-seekers if he wins. One migrant from El Salvador wants to get an appointment with U.S. border officials in hopes of entering the U.S. legally. The app used by migrants to do so only works when they reach Mexico City or states in northern Mexico. Some in the group that left Sunday from Ciudad Hidalgo said they’d been waiting for weeks in the southern Mexican town for permits to travel further north.