Migrant caravan: No room for asylum seekers at border crossing, U.S. says

A group of about 200 Central American migrants made a final triumphant walk Sunday, singing and cheering as they made their way toward an official border crossing to apply for asylum in the United States.The day was supposed to cap a 2,500-mile journey that began more than a month ago on the Mexican border with Guatemala.

But once the migrants, many of them women carrying small children in their arms, reached the San Ysidro port, the caravan appeared to collide head-on with the Trump administration.

Moments before the migrants arrived, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced that none of the migrants from the caravan would be processed for asylum because the agency had reached capacity for the day for migrants seeking asylum.

The afternoon announcement stunned organizers and immigrant-rights advocates, especially considering statements earlier this week by Department of Homeland Security officials that teams of asylum officers were being dispatched to the border to quickly process the migrants.