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Tweets are official policy, alisyn. you can see there was a response on easter sunday from a foreign minister in mexico pushing back on the fact that the president is suggesting that mexico was letting in all these droves of people and wasn't enforcing their lawyers. clearly someone got to trump and you've seen in the subsequent tweets he keeps praising their strong immigration laws. now what will be interesting is we know he wants to keep the focus on this topic. he wants to talk about the danger of the caravan, the statement about bringing the national guard to the border. talks about a dras...

Breaking up, some have broken up and gone on their own. all but two of the folks we talked to here said they have absolutely every intent to get to that u.s.-mexico border whether there is national guard or whether president trump likes it or not. so what's the plan for the big chunk of the caravan that is right now on its way from about six to eight hours south of where we are now to come here. i just spoke with the priest at this church. he tells me today he expects 20 buses of people, women, children, family, men, to arrive as part of that caravan. when we spoke to the organizers of that ca...

They're migrants. the organizers are also activists, so the caravan serves two purposes. one so get people safely -- >> go ahead. >> one is to get people safely through mexico and help them not get caught by immigration, and the other is to highlight why they are leaving in the first place. it's poverty, violence and political instability. >> what is the truth as you've seen it traveling with these migrants about what's happening. have they dispersed, is this as a result of some crackdown as president trump says? >> before the trump tweets and everything, the plan was to go all the way to the ...

Doing, they are staying in mexico given that they have permission. i spoke with one man from guatemala yesterday who said, look, i don't like the situation in the u.s., i don't want to go there. i'm going to stay in mexico, and he is afraid of what president trump said. but the overwhelming majority, alisyn, they're saying, huh-uh, can't stop us. that's the goal. that's where we're going, u.s. >> so interesting leyla. have they heard about president trump's plans to send national guard troops to the border? >> reporter: every one i spoke to said they knew of president trump's tweets, that he's...

As the caravan went up. several of the group -- a lot of people in the group are going to stay in mexico. others are going to ask for asylum at the border. other people, slightly smaller, were going to try to cross. but those numbers right now are very in flux so i don't know. to be honest, i don't know how many of these people are left at this point, before the trump tweets. >> it's very easy when we talk about these matters, we do have laws that have to be enforced. the asylum-seeking process is complicated, resulting in short term stays on our border before ultimate adjudication and resolut...