In Photos: Hunger, Panic & Prayers As Migrant Caravan Inches to US

An estimated 5,000-7,000 people from three Latin American countries are marching towards the US through Mexico.

Migrants from El Salvador start on their way to the United States border (1,500 miles away), in San Salvador, on Wednesday, 31 October 2018. 

(Photo: AP/Diana Ulloa)

An estimated 5,000-7,000 people from three Latin American countries – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – are marching towards the US through Mexico.

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the US border, get a ride on a truck, in Donaji, Oaxaca state of Mexico on Friday, 2 November 2018. 

Salvadoran migrants gather outside the gate on the Guatemalan side of the Mexico-Guatemala border in Tecun Uman on Friday, 2 November 2018. 

US President Donald Trump has deployed more than 5,000 military personnel on the US’ southwestern border to stop them from entering.

Salvadoran migrants cross the Suchiate river, the border between Guatemala and Mexico, on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. 

A woman rests while carrying her 2-year-old sick son inside a truck on the road that connects Pijijiapan with Arriaga, Mexico, on 26 October 2018. 

According to UNICEF, at one point, some 2,300 children were traveling with the caravan. At the time of writing, the caravan had reached the Mexican city of Veracruz, with plans of getting free buses to Mexico City being cancelled by the Veracruz governor.

A girl gets bathed by her mother as the migrant caravan set up camp for the night in Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico on Friday, 26 October 2018. 

Migrants light a fire for cooking as a thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans stops for the night, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state of Mexico on Thursday, 1 November 2018.

Trump had suggested that the military could fire on the caravan that is heading towards the US if the migrants pelted stones at American soldiers.

A girl carries a stuffed teddy bear as she walks with her mother with a migrant caravan near Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico on Saturday, 27 October 2018. 

Six-year-old Honduran migrant Elizabeth, colors on a reed fan as she prepares to spend the night with her family and other migrants inside a hotel that was abandoned after being damaged in last year’s earthquake, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state of Mexico on Thursday, 1 November 2018. 

Most of the main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside, before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico.

An immigrant seeking asylum fromHonduras in Central America joins nearly two dozen other immigrants in a prayerat El Calvario United Methodist Church in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Tuesday, 30October 2018.

(With inputs from AP)