HERE"S HOW THE FIRST CARAVAN GOT INTO MEXICO

The second caravan now seems to be heading for the same area as the first caravan, Tecun Uman, Guatemala / Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico. There's a bridge there between the two cities with a gate across it, that stopped the first migrant caravan. The international border runs in the middle of the river, and the gate is there.

So how did the so many people from the first caravan slip into Mexico? No, not on inner tubes across the river. Much easier than that!

(check out the following on Google maps. Go to Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas and you can see all this. Cd. H is on the left (west), T U is on the right (east), river is in between. International border shown as a dashed line.)

Out of Tecun Uman, take Guatemala Route 6 about a mile north. It ends at Guatemala Route 2. Turn left. Walk across the bridge across the river. No gate there, because the international border is a little ways back from the bank. So you get to the other side and are still in Guatemala, but there's no fence. Now you can either follow the road obediently and go thru Mexican immigration, or you can simply walk around it. There's no fence. Easy to do this at night.

(There was no Guatemalan border control either, because that's 1000 or 2000 feet further east (away from the river) on the east side of the river. When Route 6 ran into Route 2, you were already past the Guatemala border control! Yes, ridiculously insecure, but that's Guatemala.)

So they go around Mexican immigration on foot and right there is Mexico Route 200. Turn right and start walking north toward Tapachula, and that's what we see on the news now. A huge stream of migrants walking on that road to Tapachula.

It's up to Guatemala to stop them crossing the Route 2 bridge. They control both ends of that bridge; Mexico cannot do it. Now I see why Trump says he'll cut aid to Guatemala.