Video: Migrant Caravan Arrives, Spreads out on Street in Huixtla, Mexico

Video footage taken in Huixtla, Mexico, shows people who joined the migrant caravan camping out in southern Mexico. They have said they’re heading toward the United States border.

The Associated Press reported on Oct. 23, that the first of the migrant caravan arrived in Huixtla after an eight-hour walk. Huixtla is located near the southern coast of Mexico near the Mexico-Guatemala border.

The first to arrive are quickly staking out grassy spots in the town square where they will sleep, AP reported

The caravan was blasted by President Donald Trump, who said via Twitter that aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala will be stopped as the countries have failed to stop the caravan. “We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them,” the president wrote.

Trump also stated that the military would be deployed at the border.

“PresTrump as commander in chief is right to defend country/borders & stop the attack on natl sovereignty from the 7000+ migrant caravan heading to USA. Not fair to legal immigrants going through proper LEGAL process We need to help Trump admin secure border+close immig loopholes,” wrote Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

AP noted that these three countries have received more than $500 million in funding from the United States in 2017.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said that at least 7,200 people are in the caravan, but there have been reports that more than 10,000 people have joined. An official told AP that large numbers of people are arriving in Mexico and “are likely to remain in the country for an extended period.”

Motorists in pickups and vehicles have offered the migrants rides in Mexico, sometimes in overloaded trucks. A male migrant fell from one on Oct. 22, and died, AP reported.

“It is the responsibility of the driver, but it is very dangerous, and there you have the consequences,” Mexican federal police officer Miguel Angel Dominguez told the AP.