Immigrant caravan pauses in Mexico

Ariyuri Garcia, 18, left, sits with her niece Ester Garcia Rivera, 21 months old, while they camp out with other members of an immigrant caravan at a sports stadium in Matias Romero, Mexico. The baby has been sick with chest congestion during the journey. The family plans to go to Tijuana if they can’t get to the U.S.

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April 4, 2018 5:26 PM PT

A caravan of Central American immigrants that has been the target of President Trump’s ire has halted its northward march through Mexico. At a sports stadium in a small city in Oaxaca state, hundreds of immigrants, mostly from Honduras, are in the process of applying for transit or humanitarian visas. Those granted transit visas will be allowed to stay in Mexico for up to 30 days, giving them time to reach the U.S. border or head back home.

Single mother Delmi Oneida Castro Lopez, 21, is traveling in the caravan with her son Michael, 8 months, and another child. They are from Honduras.

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Children, mostly from Honduras and El Salvador, play in a pile of donated clothes on a sports field in Matias Romero in Mexico’s Oaxaca state.

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A group from Honduras washes up in the public bathing area where the caravan has stopped in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca.

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“It is weird to have to bathe with your clothes on, but there is no privacy here,” said one woman in the caravan.

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One girl gets her hair braided as a group of women and children from Honduras takes shelter from the sun.

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People from the caravan wait in line to meet with Mexico’s immigration agency to see if they can receive permission to stay in the country for 30 days.

(Meghan Dhaliwal / For The Times)