Migrant caravan resumes journey from Mexico City, aiming for Tijuana

The thousands of Honduran and other Central American migrants traveling together in a large caravan heading toward the U.S. border resumed their journey Saturday after several days in Mexico City.

Now at about 5,500 people, the group's primary destination is Tijuana, a Mexican border city near San Diego. On arrival, they intend to seek asylum in the United States, a process made more difficult by the Trump administration's new restrictions, officially announced Friday. Asylum-seekers will now have to enter the United States at an official port of entry for their claim to be considered.

"We are going to Tijuana and from there to the United States," a Guatemalan migrant in the caravan named Alex Renderos told the Los Angeles Times. "We want to work and send money to our families. I have four younger sisters and my parents back home."

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