Caravan migrants arrive in Mexico City, bed down in stadium

[Judi Lynn]

Caravan migrants arrive in Mexico City, bed down in stadium
Sonia Perez D., Mark Stevenson, and Maria Verza, Associated Press
Updated 5:59 pm CST, Monday, November 5, 2018

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan arrived in the Mexican capital Monday and began to fill up a sports stadium, still hundreds of miles from their goal of reaching the U.S. a day before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has made their journey a central campaign issue.

By afternoon 2,000 or more had arrived at the Jesus Martinez stadium, which has a capacity of about three times that, and eagerly began sifting through donations of clothes, gave themselves sponge baths, lunched on chicken and rice under the shade of tents and picked up thin mattresses to hunker down for the night.

Many went to medical tents to get treatment for blistered and aching feet, illness and other maladies. "Since we got here, we have not stopped," said Tania Escobar, a nurse with Mexico City's public health department.

Melvin Figueroa, a 32-year-old from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was traveling with his pregnant wife and two children, 6 and 8. He brought the 6-year-old girl to the tent because her eyes were irritated and "she throws up everything she eats."

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Migrant-caravan-plans-to-push-on-toward-Mexico-s-13362616.php

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142194599

[dhol82]

1. Thought they wouldn't be there for another month?

What gives?

[John Fante]

2. They've been saying a month for a while now.

At the rate they're traveling, they'll arrive at the border in roughly three weeks.

[brush]

3. Nothing gives. Mexico City is nearly 1200 miles from the US border.

The so-called invasion is still weeks away.

[dhol82]

4. Ah.