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Last migrants from caravan camp cross US-Mexico border

American migrants travelling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan sleep outside "El Chaparral" port of entry to US while waiting to be received by US authorities, in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico on April 30, 2018

The last of a group of 228 Central American migrants who had camped out on the US-Mexican border after crossing Mexico in a caravan have entered the United States to request asylum, activists said Friday.

The asylum-seekers were the most visible remnants of the "Migrant Way of the Cross," a caravan that set out from southern Mexico on March 25 with more than 1,000 people, infuriating US President Donald Trump.

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