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Some 'Caravan Migrants' Allowed To Apply For U.S. Asylum

Eight women, children and one 18-year-old were allowed to apply for asylum after the caravan reached the U.S. border following a month of travel on foot, train and bus.

A few of the nearly 200 migrants from Central America who traveled by caravan through Mexico to the U.S. border crossing at San Diego, have been allowed to apply for asylum.

Eight migrants — three women, four children and an 18-year-old man who claimed

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