Mexican Report: About 500 Migrants Enter Southern Mexico, Hoping to Reach U.S.

A group of about 500 migrants crossed from Guatemala into southern Mexico on Friday, with participants hoping to reach the United States, according to a November 7 report by the Mexican newspaper Cuarto Poder.

The group crossed the Rodolfo Robles International Bridge into Ciudad Hidalgo and then headed toward Tapachula, the report said. It described men, women and children, including families, with many of the participants from Honduras.

Cuarto Poder reported that people had announced their departure from San Pedro Sula about 48 hours earlier, and that others joined them in the Guatemalan border town of Tecun Uman.

The report establishes that the group entered southern Mexico. It does not establish that the migrants have reached the U.S. border, nor does it demonstrate that U.S. election results caused the movement. The lead image is an archive landscape at the Guatemala-Mexico border, not a photograph of this caravan.