Over 2,000 migrants from different countries left the city of Tapachula on Monday—the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration—and started making their journey to the United States, despite Trump's mass deportation warnings and early executive orders targeting asylum seekers.
The caravan, composed of family groups and individuals, is likely to be dismantled before reaching the southern U.S. border, according to Dr. Victor M. Manjarrez, former CBP Chief turned university lecturer. "They will have been broken up into smaller groups that could hardly be confused with a caravan," he suggested, based on precedents and his own experience.
