TREE NEWS update: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said a migrant caravan is still assembling in the country’s south and has not begun moving toward the U.S. border, as Washington threatened retaliation if the group reaches it. Mexico’s National Migration Institute told Reuters about 870 people had gathered in Huixtla, roughly 60 km west of the southern border with Guatemala, while two local sources and an NGO estimated the group at 1,500-2,000 — which would make it the largest caravan this year.
Mexico’s Sheinbaum says migrant caravan has not started moving toward US
The significance here is less the caravan itself than the gap between official and on-the-ground counts — a 870-versus-2,000 spread that shapes how both governments frame the situation and calibrate any response. Mexico is caught between managing migration flows on its own soil and absorbing U.S. retaliation threats, a pressure point that affects how the Sheinbaum administration handles enforcement in the south. Whether the group actually moves north, and how the discrepancy in estimates is resolved, is the open question worth watching.
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