Photos: Hundreds leave Honduras en route to the United States

Hundreds of migrants leave San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras en route to the US

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Honduran migrants run to cross the border between Honduras and Guatemala after breaking a police fence in Corinto, Honduras. Several hundred people set off before dawn from San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, about 25 miles from the Guatemala border en route to the United States.
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Hondurans gather to depart in a new caravan of migrants, set to head to the United States, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. San Pedro Sula, one of Central America's most violent cities, also was the departure point for a large caravan in 2018 that angered Trump, prompting him to press governments in the region to do more to contain migration.
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The migrants walk with a Honduran national flag heading to Puerto Barrios, in Izabal department, Guatemala. The migrants have been braving the risk of extortion, kidnap and even murder as they flee poverty and gang violence in their homelands in a bid to reach the American dream, much to the annoyance of US President Donald Trump.
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Migrants walk along a highway in hopes of reaching the distant United States, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, before sunrise. Less-organised migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of US advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like the cohesive procession the term "caravan" now conjures.
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Hondurans climb onto a truck to continue their journey toward the United States. What awaits them along their journey has changed dramatically. Guatemalan officials are checking documents, Mexico's National Guard has been deployed and if the migrants make it to the US border, officials there will make them await their asylum cases in Mexico or send them to another country in the region they're fleeing to apply for protection there.
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Honduran migrants walk to Puerto Barrios, in Izabal department, Guatemala, after breaking a police fence at the border crossing between Corinto, Honduras and Guatemala. At least 30,000 Honduran migrants of the first caravans remain in Mexico waiting for US asylum.
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A Guatemalan police agent checks documents of Hondurans migrants in Morales, Izabal departament, near the border with Honduras
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Honduran migrants stand on a road near policeman in Omoa, while going from San Pedro Sula to Corinto, Honduras, in the border with Guatemala, as part of a new caravan heading to the US
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Hondurans wait to leave with a new caravan of migrants set to head to the United States, at a bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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Honduran migrants walk to Puerto Barrios, in Izabal department, Guatemala, after after breaking a police fence at the border crossing between Corinto, Honduras and Guatemala
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A group of migrants walks trying to make it to the United States, near El Cinchado, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras
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Honduran migrants wave from the top of a truck as they head to Puerto Barrios, in Izabal department, Guatemala, after after breaking a police fence at the border crossing between Corinto, Honduras and Guatemala
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Hondurans walk along a road as they take part in a new caravan of migrants, set to head to the United States, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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Policemen check Honduran migrants travelling on a bus in Omoa, on their way from San Pedro Sula to Corinto, Honduras, in the border with Guatemala, as part of a new caravan heading to the US
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Honduran migrants travel on a truck along a road near Omoa, while going from San Pedro Sula to Corinto, Honduras, in the border with Guatemala, as part of a new caravan heading to the US
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Honduran migrants heading toward the United States wait to be register by an immigration official at the border between Honduras and Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras
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Honduran migrants pause on their way to Morales in Izabal department, Guatemala, after the border crossing between Corinto, Honduras and Guatemala

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