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    'If our countries were safe, we wouldn't leave': the harsh reality of Mexico's migrant caravan

    As Donald Trump decries an ‘invasion’ and sends troops to the border, David Agren speaks to Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence
    by David Agren in Matias Romero, Mexico Apr 06, 2018 5 minutes
    TOPSHOT - Central American migrants taking part in the 'Migrant Via Crucis' caravan towards the United States get into a bus as they start leaving a sport complex where they were camping in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, on April 05, 2018. The caravan of Central American migrants whose trek across Mexico infuriated US President Donald Trump began breaking up Thursday, after abandoning its plan to travel en masse to the United States. Starting in the early morning hours, the migrants began boarding buses or striking out on foot. / AFP PHOTO / VICTORIA RAZO / Getty Images

    Swaying on a swing in a park teeming with Central American migrants in southern Mexico, Henry Juárez hardly looks like an invader ready to rush the US border – and certainly not an enemy the national guard forces being sent to the southern frontier by Donald Trump would have trouble stopping.

    A slight 16-year-old with copper streaks in his hair wearing a singlet, sandals and baggy pants, he hit the perilous road through Mexico last month after seven gang-bangers burst into his home in El Salvador, put a pistol in his face and threatened to kill him and his family if he didn’t make an extortion payment of $100 (£71).

    “I was going to stay in my own country. I had a good job,” said Juárez, who had worked for a company installing utility

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