Secretary of State Anthony Blinking and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkus will travel to Mexico City today to meet with Mexican President Andres Oberdor to discuss new immigration policy between the two countries.

That visit comes as a surge of thousands of migrants

making their way through Mexico to the U.S. border as we speak.

Joining us now from the southern border,

NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky.

Morgan, good morning, what's the latest there?

Yeah, really good morning and the organizers of that very migrant caravan

have said that the group has swelled rapidly with the

addition of more Central American families so many of them with very young

children now the past 24 hours here in Eagle Pass has been surprisingly quiet but that could soon be changing.

This morning the southern borders migrant crisis marching on. This video capturing the largest caravan in

more than a year an estimated 8,000 men women and children in Chiapas Mexico

near Guatemala. All of them headed north.

Organizers say the group swelled by nearly 2,000 people in a single day.

Many hoping for a better life, many more road weary and exhausted. The caravan moving as the

Mexican president welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The

Mexico City meeting set for later, expected to focus on the unprecedented

irregular migration and border security between the neighboring countries.

The visit following a recent phone call between President Biden and Mexico's leader.

The two leaders agreed that additional enforcement actions are urgently needed.

It comes as the number of migrants in cities across the country are reaching record levels, with New York

city seeing up to 4,000 people arriving each week.

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