AFP :
The last of a group of 228 Central American migrants who had camped out on the US-Mexican border after crossing Mexico in a caravan have entered the United States to request asylum, activists said Friday.
The asylum-seekers were the most visible remnants of the “Migrant Way of the Cross,” a caravan that set out from southern Mexico on March 25 with more than 1,000 people, infuriating US President Donald Trump.
After Trump demanded Mexico stop the migrants and ordered the National Guard to the border, the caravan quietly dispersed. But a large group including many families with children traveled en masse to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, and insisted on being allowed to enter the United States to request asylum, in accordance with international law.
After letting them through in a trickle over the course of several days, US border officers granted entry to the last 83 members of that group on Friday, said Alex Mensing, a member of People Without Borders (Pueblo Sin Fronteras), the organization behind the caravan.
The last of a group of 228 Central American migrants who had camped out on the US-Mexican border after crossing Mexico in a caravan have entered the United States to request asylum, activists said Friday.
The asylum-seekers were the most visible remnants of the “Migrant Way of the Cross,” a caravan that set out from southern Mexico on March 25 with more than 1,000 people, infuriating US President Donald Trump.
After Trump demanded Mexico stop the migrants and ordered the National Guard to the border, the caravan quietly dispersed. But a large group including many families with children traveled en masse to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, and insisted on being allowed to enter the United States to request asylum, in accordance with international law.
After letting them through in a trickle over the course of several days, US border officers granted entry to the last 83 members of that group on Friday, said Alex Mensing, a member of People Without Borders (Pueblo Sin Fronteras), the organization behind the caravan.
