Trump administration supports Mexico, UN plan to deal with caravan of migrants
Sergio Bustos, USA TODAY
Published 11:12 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2018 | Updated 12:02 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2018
The Trump administration on Thursday night welcomed a Mexican government plan to work with the United Nations refugee agency to deal with a controversial caravan of mostly Honduran migrants — fleeing poverty and violence — before they can make their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The caravan of migrants, who number anywhere between 1,500 to 4,000 people, has angered President Donald Trump. This week, he threatened the governments in Central America and Mexico if they failed to deal with the situation.
A top Mexican official said Thursday night that his government will ask the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to help identify “legitimate†asylum claims from the migrants who are part of the caravan making its way through his country’s southern border en route to the U.S.
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