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Från Centralamerika/ Key facts about the caravans making their way to the USA
Groups of families, including many young people and small children escaping violence, poverty and persecution in Central America, are not a new phenomenon.
For several years, people have fled Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and other countries to head north towards the USA.
Travelling as a group, many make the exhausting and dangerous journey through Mexico. Some travel with their children. Many have the aim of seeking protection as refugees in the USA or in Mexico.
However, the climate towards migrants and refugees has deteriorated sharply under the Trump administration, which has separated children from asylum-seeking parents, threatened to close the southern border to Central Americans and proposed paying the Mexican government millions of dollars to deport irregular migrants, among other hostile policies.
When did these recent movements of people begin?
The BBC reported that on 12 October 2018, around 160 people gathered at a bus terminal in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, ready to begin their long journey north; a journey they had been planning for more than a month.
By the time the group set off in the early hours of 13 October, more than 1,000 others had joined them. The group swelled in size and entered Mexico on 19 October. Many groups have followed them since then.
How big are these groups?
Estimates vary wildly, with some people returning home as others join the group or other new groups start the journey.
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