Many US commentators assumed that the migrants knew exactly where they were going, but in fact, many of them hadn’t thought that far in advance. For the first few weeks of the trip, there was a single, obvious route for the caravan through the small towns dotting the southern tip of Mexico. Beyond that, the travelers were basically improvising. When it came to the US, the preponderant view—that Donald Trump would not let them into the country—did not seem to slow anyone down. “We’ll do what we can for now, then wait and see,” said Daniel Jiménez, a thirty-year-old who had joined the caravan
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