Caravan of 3,000 Tests U.S.-Mexico Pact to Stop Migrants
- Foreign Minister Ebrard says security forces avoided ‘tragedy’
- Trump in May threatened tariffs if Mexico didn’t slow arrivals
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A caravan of as many as 3,000 migrants is testing Mexico’s pledge to President Donald Trump to halt undocumented arrivals to the U.S.
For the first time since Mexico began its full-scale crackdown against migrants, hundreds of caravan members clashed with Mexican security forces at the country’s southern border. After being turned away at a bridge crossing, they waded across a shallow river Monday from the Guatemalan side into Mexico.