New Migrant Caravan Heads to U.S. Despite Trump's Threats.
SCIUTTO: A new group of migrants is heading from Honduras to the U.S., risking the wrath of President Trump, organizers say that thousands of people make up this group. It is now crossing to Guatemala. It is marching north. Their intention, they say, is to seek asylum in the U.S. as they flee violence in their home country.</s>HARLOW: Right. But despite that - despite all of the violence they face at home, the president is threatening them, vowing to cut foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador if any of these enter the country illegally. Leyla Santiago is with us now. Leyla, I mean you have such a unique perspective on this because you have travelled with groups of migrants for weeks on end making a very similar journey.</s>LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right. In April I travelled with a caravan, a very large caravan that did make it to seek asylum, many of them still right now in the U.S. waiting for their day in court. Back then even in April, President Trump was tweeting about the then- caravan. Now here comes another caravan and President Trump tweeting again. In fact, just in the last hour he tweeted, hard to believe that with thousands of people south of the border walking unimpeded towards our country in the form of large caravans that the Democrats won't approve legislation that will allow laws for the protection of our country, great midterm issue for Republicans. He pretty much spells it out right there, the primetime just days before the midterm elections very much as he did in his own campaign. So, I think it is important to talk about what is this caravan. As I have spoken to organizers and human rights volunteers that are working with them. They tell me that these are women and children, families fleeing violence. Just last week, I was at the border. I spoke to one woman from Honduras who told me gangs threatened to kill her 10-year- old son if f she didn't pay up. She didn't have the money to pay up so she fled and said she couldn't go back to Honduras because anywhere in Honduras, they would track her down and kill her son. That is why she left. That is the level of violence that they are fleeing. And that is why they are hoping to get to the U.S. to seek asylum. A big question will be will Guatemala, El Salvador, will Honduras cooperate with President Trump to stop this? He is threatening aid. Will that be enough to incentivize them?</s>HARLOW: But just one question, if you cut off aid to these economies, right? Then you make the situation for those people that are fleeing this situation even worse. Wouldn't the logical conclusion be that more may then try to head north and try to head into the United States for more opportunity and security?</s>DE VOGUE: I have actually talked to a man who runs one of the programs funded by U.S. aid and that was his very concern, Poppy, that if that money is taken away, the violence prevention in place, the poverty prevention in place will encourage more people to head north.</s>SCIUTTO: Fact checking the president there, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers go to a couple of different immigration bills over the course of the last year. Leyla Santiago thanks very much.</s>HARLOW: Thank you and thanks for being with us today. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. I'm Poppy Harlow.</s>SCIUTTO: I'm Jim Sciutto. "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan starts right now.