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The huge number of Central American migrants making the long journey towards the US border has swelled to more than 5,000 despite Mexican efforts to stop them. Desperate parents were seen holding crying children as the caravan moved through the Mexican town of Tapachula in a line stretching approximately a mile. Around 2,000 people made it into Mexico from Honduras through Guatemala despite meeting walls of police riot shields and pepper spray on Saturday night. The number of Honduran migrants continue their way through Mexico has swelled to 5,000 (Picture: EPA) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video It is thought the extra numbers of migrants that joined them had been waiting on the bridge over the Suchiate River or in the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman and decided to cross during the night. At dawn on Sunday, there were still an estimated 1,500 migrants on the Guatemalan side hoping to enter Mexico legally. The migrants later marched on through Mexico shouting slogans like ‘Si se pudo’ or ‘Yes, we could’. People living in Mexican villages on the outskirts of Ciudad Hidalgo clapped and cheered and gave donations of food and clothing to the migrants. Maria Teresa Orellana handed out free sandals, telling the Associated Press: ‘It’s solidarity. They’re our brothers.’ Jesus Valdivia was one of many who pulled his pickup truck over to let 10 or 20 migrants hold on. He said: ‘You have to help the next person. Today it’s for them, tomorrow for us. ‘From them we learn to value what they do not have.’ Aerial pictures captured the scale of the huge caravan heading to the US on the road linking Ciudad Hidalgo and Tapachula, Mexico (Picture: AFP/Getty) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Olivin Castellanos, 58, a truck driver and mason from Villanueva, Honduras, said he took a raft across the river after Mexico blocked the bridge. ‘No one will stop us, only God,’ he said. ‘We knocked down the door and we continue walking.’ He wants to reach the US to work, he said. Some migrants said they had given up trying to enter Mexico legally because the asylum application process was too slow. Later, thousands of people stretched out on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and among rubbish in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, worn down by another day’s march under a blazing sun. ‘We are going to sleep here in the street, because we have nothing else,’ said Jose Mejia, 42, a father of four from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. ‘We have to sleep on the sidewalk, and tomorrow wake up and keep walking. We’ll get a piece of plastic to cover ourselves if it rains again.’ Adela Echeverria, 52, a single mother of three, teared up as she said: ‘We are used to sleeping like this, taking care of each other. We don’t want to be separated.’ Exhausted travellers and their babies lay down to rest among rubbish at the main square in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico on Saturday before resuming the march a short time later (Picture: AFP/Getty) Migrants have been checked by paramedics along the way (Picture: AFP/Getty) A doctor treats a child who has become wounded during the journey (Picture: AFP/Getty) On Tuesday last week, Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to Honduras if the migrants refused to turn back. He has repeatedly criticised the Democratic Party over the mass movement of migrants as a campaign issue of border security ahead of midterm elections in early November. The president tweeted: ‘The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party. Change the immigration laws NOW!’ In a separate tweet, he said that ‘full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther (sic) Border.’ On Thursday he posted a video of desperate migrants waiting in line for aid vouchers. ‘Can you believe this, and what Democrats are allowing to be done to our Country?’ he wrote. Some clung on to vehicles that carried them across Mexico (Picture: AP) Migrants were pictured helping each other in their long journey (Picture: AFP/Getty) A man carrying a boy gives the child water while walking with the caravan of migrants heading for the US (Picture: AP) Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested on Sunday that the United States, Canada and Mexico work out a joint plan for funding development in the poor areas of Central America and southern Mexico. ‘In this way we confront the phenomenon of migration, because he who leaves his town does not leave for pleasure but out of necessity,’ he said. The migrant caravan started out more than a week ago with less than 200 participants who have said they are fleeing widespread violence, poverty and corruption in Honduras. The caravan is unlike previous mass migrations for its unprecedented large numbers and because it largely began spontaneously through word of mouth. More: TV Who dies as Corrie airs horrifying new year fire for the Barlows? More than 5,000 people have now joined huge caravan heading towards the US Modern Etiquette: How do you tell your hairdresser they’ve done a terrible job? Ulises Garcia, a Red Cross official, said some migrants with injuries from their hard trek refused to be taken to clinics or hospitals, because they didn’t want to leave the caravan. ‘We have had people who have ankle or shoulder injuries, from falls during the trip, and even though we have offered to take them somewhere where they can get better care, they have refused, because they fear they’ll be detained and deported,’ Garcia said. ‘They want to continue on their way.’ Got a story for Metro.co.uk? If you have a story for our news team, email us at webnews@metro.co.uk. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
