Migrant Caravan Continues Its Drive North While Rejecting Mexican Offers

The caravan is made up of thousands of men, women and children

DW: Migrant caravan members refuse Mexico's offer of temporary asylum

Thousands of Central Americans walking through Mexico in a large group in an effort to reach the US have continued on their way after being blocked on a bridge. They may be met by troops at the border.

Mexican federal officers abandoned a blockade they had set up on a bridge in the south of the country on Saturday. Mexico's Human Rights Commission told police that a rural stretch of highway without shade or water was no place to hold talks.

According to organizers, some 5,500 men, women and children are in the caravan, while authorities put the number at 3,630.

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