A quiet border faces a new test as migrant caravans head north

After months of historically low migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border, a new caravan of approximately 1,500 migrants is making its way north through southern Mexico, beginning a journey they hope will eventually take them to the United States. The group, which departed Tapachula on Tuesday, includes families from Central America who have been stranded in Mexico amid tightened U.S. immigration restrictions. “Our destination is the United States,” Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan migrant, told AFP. Sandoval said he hopes that recent Democratic victories in the midterm elections will give him “another chance” to enter the country. The movement has prompted a new confrontation between Washington and Mexico City.

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