THE LEAD STORY - MIGRANT CARAVANS ARE HERE: Splintered groups of Central American migrant caravans began arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, with more on the way ... Authorities had been dealing with a group of 357 migrants who arrived in Tijuana aboard nine buses on Tuesday. Migrants arrived in Tijuana by the hundreds Wednesday. Several hundred people from the caravan got off buses and made their way to a shelter on the Mexican side near the border to line up for food. Dozens were seen scaling the steel border fence to celebrate their arrival, chanting "Yes, we could!" Several Border Patrol agents in San Diego watched them through the barrier separating the U.S. and Mexico.
The bulk of the main caravan appeared to be about 1,100 miles from the border, but has recently been moving hundreds of miles a day by hitching rides on trucks and buses. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, meanwhile, visited U.S. troops posted at the border in Texas. Mattis defended the use of active duty troops on the U.S.-Mexican border, saying that in some ways it provides good training for war and that it's analogous to a 1916 deployment to counter the Mexican revolutionary Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Most of the troops are in Texas, more than 1,500 miles from where Wednesday's caravans were arriving. - The Associated Press contributed to this report
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