Migrants halted on bridge at Mexico border
21 October 2018 |
12:00 pm
Hundreds of Central American migrants remain camped on a bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico on Saturday, as efforts to halt a trek north by the caravan gathered pace under U.S. pressure.
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