Instead, Yunes offered to take the migrants to another city in Veracruz until the water issue in Mexico City was resolved.
“I want to make an offer to the migrants that while this problem is being resolved they accept my invitation to go to a city in Veracruz” that has the conditions to host them, he said.
In sending troops to the border, President Trump told the military that if they face rock-throwing migrants, they should react as though the rocks were “rifles” — a statement he later walked back.
“It is pure ignorance for him to think like that,” said Marta Cuellos, a 40-year-old from Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. “A rock is not the same as a rifle.”
Most of those traveling with the caravans have been peaceful and migrants traveling through the southern state of Oaxaca on Friday said they are not looking for trouble.
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“We are not killers,” said Stephany Lopez, 21, who traveld from El Salvador. “We just want to work for a few years, and after that he can deport us if he wants.”
Lopez noted that the president’s mother, who was born in Scotland, was an immigrant.
“He should think of us as equals. Immigrants have built that country,” she said.
On the U.S. side of the border, in southern Texas, reaction to the troop deployment was mixed.
“We don’t need the military down here, said Felix Rodriguez, a Vietnam veteran. “Our men and women in uniform are being used unwisely.”
Rusty Monsees, who lives in the border town of Brownsville, said he constantly sees immigrants crossing the Rio Grande onto his property.
“If I was in his shoes, I’d bring every troop I can find,” Monsees said of Trump.
When asked what he would say to critics who argue the deployment is a waste of taxpayer money, he responded: “They don’t live down here.”
Kalhan Rosenblatt and The Associated Press contributed.