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About 4,000 undocumented Honduran migrants are marching north through Mexico to the US border. A second, smaller group of 1,000 or so migrants is more than 200 miles behind the first caravan. A third band of about 500 from El Salvador has made it to Guatemala, and a fourth group of about 700 set out from the Salvadoran capital Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered 5,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Central American migrants are seen near the U.S. border in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, November 13, 2018.GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images

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U.S. soldiers install barriers at the San Ysidro port of entry, anticipating the arrival of Central American migrants November 13, 2018.GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images

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Central American migrant girls ride in a chicken truck, in Irapuato, Mexico, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.Rodrigo Abd/The Associated Press

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Central American migrants, riding on a truck, yell insults at about 50 LGBTQ migrants on the road to Donaji, Mexico.Rodrigo Abd/The Associated Press

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Central American migrants wait for subway cars to resume their journey north in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.Rodrigo Abd/The Associated Press

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A Central American migrant girl plays at a shelter in Zapopan, Mexico, November 12, 2018.ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images

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A coffin carrying Henry Adalid Diaz, a Honduran migrant who died during a clash with Mexican police at the Mexico-Guatemala border, arrives in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October 31, 2018.JORGE CABRERA/Reuters

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Jonathan Rodriguez, 7 , waits to hitchhike in Matias Romero, Mexico, November 9, 2018.UESLEI MARCELINO/Reuters

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A new group of Central American migrants wade across the Suchiate River between Guatemala and Mexico, Oct. 29, 2018.Santiago Billy/The Associated Press

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An Honduran child and his mother board a plane, in Tapachula, Mexico, deporting migrants back to Honduras from Mexico, October 31, 2018.CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/Reuters

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A migrant jumps off a bridge to enter Mexico from the border with Guatemala.John Moore/Getty Images

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A man carries a girl through the Suchiate River into Mexico from Guatemala.ADREES LATIF/Reuters

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Migrants beg for money from passing cars in Cordoba, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018.Marco Ugarte/The Associated Press

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An injured migrant man is put into a police truck after clashing with other migrants in Isla, Mexico.HANNAH MCKAY/Reuters

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Honduran migrants climb the gate of the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Chiapas state.PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images

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A Honduran woman holds a crying baby as they struggle to cross the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge.PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images

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Central Americans hoping to apply for asylum, show their hands marked with numbers to reserve their places in the queue at the border on a bridge between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico October 31, 2018.JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/Reuters

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