A US-bound caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants is moving into Mexico. This came after they were condemned as unwelcome by President Donald Trump. Mexican authorities allowed dozens of women and children to enter the country, but thousands remain stranded on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico. CGTN's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico.

The migrants entered the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Sunday morning. Their numbers made it clear - this is a mass exodus. Everyone CGTN spoke with in the caravan was from Honduras. Many had spent a hard night sleeping out in the open along the border with Guatemala in places like parks.

This family - a young father and mother, and their two daughters - walked for a week all the way from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The mother, Malena is 21 years old. She is exhausted and has a bad cold. I asked her what the journey has been like. Long and difficult are the only words she could come up with. Her husband, Jonathan Peralta is aware that U.S. President Donald Trump refers to the migrants as criminals. Trump has said the children traveling with them are not even theirs.

JONATHAN PERALTA HONDURAN MIGRANT "No one should be confused. There are a few who break laws. But we should not have to pay for their bad behavior. We brought our daughters with us because we could not leave them behind. If I left them in Honduras they would face much danger there because of criminals."

Jose Alfredo Lopez Vasquez is a Mexican citizen who lives along this international highway leading to Tapachula. When the migrants passed his home, he offered them water and some shade.

JOSE ALFREDO LOPEZ VASQUEZ MEXICAN CITIZEN "Migration is a natural thing in this place. Migrants are always passing by here. When they pass, no one complains. But this time it does worry us to see so many people."

The migrant caravan broke into at least three different large groups over the weekend. The second group is made up of hundreds of Hondurans, who are still waiting in line on the Guatemala-Mexico international bridge to enter Mexico.

FRANC CONTRERAS CIUDAD HIDALGO, MEXICO "The sun is bearing down on those families there on that bridge and the situation is increasingly difficult, as they wait in line to fill out immigration forms and hopefully gain asylum status inside Mexico."

Many others are still in Guatemala, waiting to see what happens to those who have gone ahead of them. Not one of them told us they are willing to return home to Honduras. FC, CGTN, Tapachula, Mexico.