Earlier this year, a caravan of hundreds of asylum seekers travel thousands of miles to Mexico with the ultimate goal to cross the United States border and enter the nation.

  Then Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued an order to U.S. attorneys in the southwestern states to prosecute all cases citing the zero tolerance policy. In the context of the Mexican-American border. According to “politifact.com”, the policy states that regardless the reason or circumstance, no one is to be let through our border.

  This controversy drew public attention when migrant children were separated from their families as their parents were detained when attempting to cross illegally.

Amid the chaos and confusion of the situation, major developments began to escalate. This year, in October, another caravan comprised of thousands of people seeking asylum crossed into Mexico with the same goal as the first caravan.

Weeks later on the 23 of November, after the caravan arrived in Tijuana, just south of the border shared with Mexico and California. The mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared a humanitarian crisis on the grounds his city of 1.6 million is struggling to care for the migrants.

 November 25, A group of 500 migrants attempting to break through the border illegally clashed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who used tear gas on the mob.

According to ABC News 11 “TIMELINE: 2018 Migrant Caravans and the Border Controversy”, the migrant group was primarily men, while women and children not trying to cross the border were hit with the gas. Many were detained, but minor injuries were sustained on both sides.