Central American migrants seek asylum
A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants sleeps at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29, 2018. U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.
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After a rally was held among their supporters, about 200 Central American migrants planned an attempt to request asylum in the United States on April 29, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico, and on the U.S. side near San Diego.
A member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29, 2018.
(Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP)A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants peers from a bus carrying the group to the border wall for a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29, 2018. The sign reads in Spanish: “We’re all brother countries from the Americas. Free transit. Stop the deportations.â€
(Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP)Pro-migrant caravan demonstrators stage a rally in on April 29, 2018, at the US-Mexico Border in San Ysidro, Calif. The U.S. has threatened to arrest Central American migrants if they try to sneak in from the U.S.-Mexico border where they have gathered, prompting President Donald Trump to order troop reinforcements on the frontier.
(Sandy Huffaker / AFP/Getty Images)Pro-migrant caravan demonstrators rally at the west end of the U.S.-Mexico border as pro-migrant demonstrators climb the border wall from the Mexican side of the wall on April 29, 2018 in San Diego, Calif.
(Bill Wechter / Getty Images)Pro-migrant caravan demonstrators rally on the Mexican side of the border wall on April 29, 2018, neaar San Diego, Calif.
(Bill Wechter / Getty Images)People climb a section of border fence to look toward supporters in the U.S. as members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers arrive to a rally on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico.
(David McNew / Getty Images)Carlos Antonio Aguilera, an asylum seeker from Honduras, runs toward the border fence on the beach as a caravan of Central American asylum seekers arrive to a rally on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico.
(David McNew / Getty Images)People hold Honduran flags at the border fence during a rally with members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers and supporters on April 29, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico.
(David McNew / Getty Images)People post welcome signs on the border fence at a rally with members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers and supporters on April 29, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico.
(David McNew / Getty Images)A Central American migrant boy traveling with a caravan of asylum seekers removes sand from his shoes during a demonstration at the U.S.-Mexico Border at Tijuana’s beaches on April 29, 2018.
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