The largest group is actually from Venezuela. There are people coming from Colombia as well as Cuba and Nicaragua. The hardest part of the journey was actually in Mexico because the country's military is really cracking down on migrants. Most of these people are coming from South America and the Caribbean, which means that their journeys are longer and harder.
Texas and Arizona's governors are giving migrants bus tickets to the capital. The mayor of Washington, DC, says it’s causing a humanitarian crisis in the city — and that the White House isn’t helping.
This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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