From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

It's not every week that a protest creates an international incident, but here we are.

The Pentagon is now preparing options after President Trump signed a proclamation

directing the National Guard to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border. The move to mobilize came after

several days of tweets in which the president focused his rage on a group of Central American

migrants who have gathered to travel through Mexico. Many are seeking asylum there.

Some are planning to seek asylum in the United States,

and a few are planning to cross the border illegally.

Now, the caravan, which is over a thousand people,

coming in from Honduras,

thought they were going to just walk right through Mexico

and right through the border.

On Thursday, after five days of tweeting about it, Trump said the caravan was largely broken up.

No, it's not.

Carrie Khan is NPR's correspondent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

I spent all day Wednesday with them, and there are hundreds of men, women,

and a lot of children, many sick now, if I can add that. In this park, it's a recreational field

with soccer field and a couple, you know, swing sets and stuff, in this small town in southern

Waxaca state, and they're still there,

and they're united front and they're going to continue traveling north.

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