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President Trump is calling it a national emergency.

Getting some people fired up about immigration laws in the US and others saying he's using false claims for politics.

So here's what's going on. Thousands of Central American

migrants are working their way toward the US border. The AP reports the

migrant caravan is now estimated to be about 7,000 people, so it's grown a lot since last week.

The New York Times calls it by far the largest single group of migrants moving north in decades.

But they're still very far from the US, at least 1,100 miles left to walk to reach the nearest border crossing

and maybe double that if they take another route.

The AP says it's very possible many migrants escaping poverty and violence in places like

Guatemala will choose to split off and end up staying escaping poverty and violence in places like Guatemala,

will choose to split off and end up staying in Mexico

or going back home.

Some already have.

Others have ignored the Mexican government's efforts

to stop them and continued on.

President Trump told USA Today, he's ready to send as many troops as necessary to the US-Mexico

border to block the migrants whenever they get there.

He said there are, quote, criminals and unknown Middle Easterners in the caravan but

there's been no evidence of that and those involved with the caravan say it's a

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