Hundreds of Central Americans following in the footsteps of a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way toward the U.S. border crossed a river from Guatemala into Mexico on Monday, defying a heavy Federal Police presence deployed to patrol that country's southern frontier.
President Donald Trump says he's planning "tent cities" to house asylum-seeking Central American migrants.
Trump says in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that if any of the migrants, who are still hundreds of miles away, do make it to the border and apply for asylum, as they're legally entitled, the U.S. plans to "hold them until such time as their trial takes place."
Trump says: "We're going to build tent cities. We're going to put tents up all over the place ... and they're going to wait."
Under current protocol, migrants who clear an initial screening are often released until their cases are decided in immigration court, which can take several years.