President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Mexico to stop caravans of migrants traveling through the country from reaching the United States, threatening to slap economic penalties on Washington’s southern neighbor if it fails to do so.

In recent weeks, crowds of mostly Central American migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Haiti, Guatemala, and elsewhere have been making their way to the U.S. despite Mexico’s attempts to block them. One group of about 2,000 people left Mexico’s city of Tapachula over the weekend, with some expressing hope that Democratic gains in last week’s midterm elections will ease immigration policy. Tapachula is roughly 1,150 miles from the U.S. border.

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