Through the rain, scorching heat,
and humidity,
thousands of migrants
make the perilous journey through southern Mexico,
hoping to reach the United States.
It’s been called the largest
Central American migrant caravan in decades,
and thousands more migrants are joining,
fleeing dire conditions
in Honduras, El Salvador
and Guatemala.
President Trump is sending
5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border
and has threatened to take away aid
from those countries
who haven’t done enough
to stop the caravan.
Fanni, a single mother from Honduras,
is accompanied by her two young daughters.
They have been travelling
for the past 15 days.
Fanni has formed a new family
that she met on the caravan.
They have named themselves the Lopez clan,
after a family from a Mexican soap opera
called 'A Fortunate Family',
or 'Una familia con Suerte.'
The migrants cover a
distance of 120km every day,
the lucky ones hitching
rides whenever possible.
To keep the migrants far away
from the US border,
President Peña Nieto of Mexico
made the migrants a conditional offer.
Those that register
and stay in the regions of Chiapas and Oaxaca,
in southern Mexico,
will be given temporary refugee status,
jobs, and schooling for their children.
Milton, Pancho, and Ale come from Tela
on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.
Like so many others,
they say that conditions in their country are unliveable.
and they want to find work
and a better life in the United States.
The weather on Saturday was approaching 
104F (40C).
In a rally that Friday evening,
the migrants decide to reject the Mexican
government's offer
to stay in Oaxaca or Chiapas
and to continue north
towards the United States.
The next day, the migrants are met
by a federal police blockade.
The authorities warn the migrants
that they would not be allowed
to cross the Chiapas-Oaxaca border
and go any further
and that busses were ready to take them to shelters
and repatriate those who were ready to go home.
After negotiations between Mexican human rights
groups and the federal police,
the caravan was allowed to continue.
Some migrants have turned themselves in
to the authorities and are headed back to
their home countries.
But the majority continue northward,
and thousands more are en route behind them
headed up through Mexico.
