CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — The Latest on the caravan of Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States (all times local):
9:10 a.m.
Three federal police units are escorting the massive crowd of migrants marching across southernmost Mexico and a police helicopter has been flying overhead. It’s not immediately clear if Mexican authorities plan again to try to stop the march, which has swelled to some 5,000 people.
Municipal police in the town of Frontera Hidalgo stood by. City police officer Luis Fernando Mejia Morales said “the instructions are to treat them kindly. They are human beings.”
People in the town were sympathetic to the migrants. Some prepared tubs full of plastic bags of water to give the migrants, who by now are walking under a blazing sun.
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