Central American asylum seeking caravan reaches US border

Temporary tents for about 130 Central Americans, mostly women and children, who arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico in a "caravan" of asylum-seeking immigrants that has drawn the fury of President Donald Trump, are seen in a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Two busloads arrived late Tuesday, in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, and another 200 were expected to come. Legal workshops are planned later this week and the first large group is expected to try to enter the United States on Sunday at a border crossing in San Diego. in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)
Temporary tents for about 130 Central Americans, mostly women and children, who arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico in a "caravan" of asylum-seeking immigrants that has drawn the fury of President Donald Trump, are seen in a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Two busloads arrived late Tuesday, in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, and another 200 were expected to come. Legal workshops are planned later this week and the first large group is expected to try to enter the United States on Sunday at a border crossing in San Diego. in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - About 130 Central Americans in a "caravan" of asylum-seeking immigrants that drew President Donald Trump's fury has arrived in the Mexican city of Tijuana bordering the U.S.

Two busloads of mostly women and children arrived late Tuesday at two migrant shelters steps away from one of the most fortified stretches of the U.S-Mexico border.

Alex Mensing of the Pueblos Sin Fronteras caravan organizing group said about 200 more Central Americans were expected Wednesday to reach Tijuana.

Legal workshops are planned later to tell the Central Americans what to expect when they seek asylum.

The first large group is expected to try to enter the United States on Sunday at the San Diego border crossing.

Trump has portrayed the caravans and the asylum seekers as evidence of a dysfunctional border.

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