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Khushbu is a field producer for CNN based in Mexico City. You can follow her on Twitter @khushbuoshea

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Gabriela Hernandez and her children Jonathan and Omar, during their wait in Tijuana.

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Migrant mother Gabriela Hernandez is almost relieved to be in detention after a hellish journey through Mexico

Gabriela Hernandez traveled in the migrant caravan through Mexico to the US border. Now she is in detention with her children.

Gabriela Hernandez and her children Jhonnathan and Omar, Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan stand for a portrait outside near their tent at Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 27, 2018.

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Mom from migrant caravan making way with kids through immigration system

Gabriela Hernandez, the pregnant mother of two who was one of the first migrants from a recent caravan through Mexico to enter the United States to request asylum, remains with her children, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told CNN on Friday.

Migrants wait for access to request asylum in the US, at the El Chaparral port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, April 30, 2018. bout 200 people in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers waited on the Mexican border with San Diego for a second straight day on Monday to turn themselves in to U.S. border inspectors, who said the nation's busiest crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

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Caravan organizers: 158 migrants have crossed into US to seek asylum

At least 158 Central Americans who traveled in a migrant caravan through Mexico have crossed into the United States this week to seek asylum, organizers said Thursday.

Migrants wait for access to request asylum in the US, at the El Chaparral port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, April 30, 2018. bout 200 people in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers waited on the Mexican border with San Diego for a second straight day on Monday to turn themselves in to U.S. border inspectors, who said the nation's busiest crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

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Some migrants start asylum requests, but dozens from the caravan are still in tents

Slowly but steadily, caravan migrants who trekked across Mexico are pleading their cases to US authorities on why they should be granted asylum.

Gabriela Hernandez and her son Jhonnathan, Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan pick up clothing at Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 27, 2018.

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Aunt says she got call with news of migrant mom Gabriela Hernandez

The call could signal a next step in pregnant woman’s journey with her boys from Honduras, across Mexico in the migrant caravan, with hopes of reaching the US.

Gabriela Hernandez and her children Jhonnathan and Omar, Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan stand for a portrait outside near their tent at Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 27, 2018.

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Migrants picked this pregnant mother of 2 to go to the front of the asylum line

Gabriela Hernandez and her sons were the first asylum seekers to reach the US border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. It’s the end of the migrant caravan, but not the end of the journey.

Central 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. - According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sunday, none of the migrants from the caravan was processed for asylum because the agency had reached capacity for the day for migrants seeking asylum. At least 150 Central American migrants reached the border between Mexico and the United States on Sunday, determined to seek asylum from the US. The group arrived in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, part of a caravan of more than 1,000 people who set out from Mexico's southern border on March 25. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS / AFP) (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images)

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The caravan of migrants has reached the US-Mexico border. So what’s next?

About 100 migrants on a caravan from Central America arrived at the US-Mexico border Sunday evening, preparing to claim asylum. What will happen next is unclear.

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan gather at the border wall, some sitting on top of it, look toward the U.S. from Mexico during a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border, on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018. U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. They say they want to prepare them for the worst possible outcome. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

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Migrants who traveled with caravan vow to wait at border until they are granted asylum

After a difficult, monthlong journey from Central America to the US-Mexico border, dozens of asylum-seeking migrants are vowing to remain outside an immigration processing center until “every last one” is admitted into the country, an organizer with the caravan said late Sunday.

Migrants wait at the US-Mexico border to have their asylum claims processed. America lies on the other side of the turnstiles.

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Huddling on the concrete, they wait. Through the turnstiles is America.

A month after beginning their arduous trip north from Central America, a caravan of migrants is so close to their goal of reaching the United States they can see the lights of its shops.

Gabriela Hernandez and her children Jhonnathan and Omar, Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan sit outside Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 27, 2018.

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Gabriela’s quest for safety: Pregnant mom gets her boys through sickness, a trash train and 3,000 miles

Pregnant Gabriela Hernandez flees Honduras with her two young sons. Through Mexico, she survives sickness, a trash train and 3,000 miles in a search for safety.

Central American migrants taking part in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan towards the United States, arrive in Puebla, Puebla State, Mexico, on April 6, 2018 where they will attend a legal clinic with NGOs on human rights.

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Undeterred by Trump, caravan buses arrive in border city

Busloads of Central American migrants who say they plan to seek asylum in the United States arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Tuesday. And more are coming.

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To live openly as a woman, she had to flee. But the road ahead holds no guarantees.

Nikolle Contreras is one of several transgender and gender nonconforming migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US.

Migrants climbed onto the freight train Saturday in the city of Tultitlán, 1,500 miles south of the US-Mexico border.

Migrants from the caravan have started reaching the US-Mexico border

The first migrants from a caravan that sparked the ire of President Donald Trump have started arriving at the US-Mexico border and asking for asylum, advocates say.

Puerto Rico Electric and Power Authority linemen works on a new utility pole placed in a residential area during sunset in Gurabo, last November.

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Power returning to Puerto Rico after massive outage caused by fallen tree

Power was gradually returning to Puerto Rico Thursday night after the US commonwealth was hit with a massive outage – nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island’s infrastructure and its electrical grid.

Central American migrants traveling with the annual "Stations of the Cross" caravan board a bus that will take them to Mexico City, at the sports club where they had been camping out in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Thursday, April 5, 2018. Migrants in the caravan that drew criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump began packing up their meager possessions and boarding buses to the Mexican capital and the nearby city of Puebla. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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These are the Central American migrants crossing Mexico in a caravan

They have traveled for days on foot and by bus. They are tired, hungry and desperate for a better life.

Central American migrants traveling with the annual Stations of the Cross caravan march to call for migrants' rights and protest the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Bogged down by logistical problems, large numbers of children and fears about people getting sick, the caravan was always meant to draw attention to the plight of migrants and was never equipped to march all the way to the U.S. border.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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Caravan won’t end in Mexico. Some migrants will risk trip to US border

US President Donald Trump’s move to deploy the National Guard has not deterred a caravan of Central American migrants planning to cross through Mexico to the US border. Instead, the migrants will disperse into smaller groups after reaching Mexico City.