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"There is no way to live there, we don´t know how to survive, " says Margarita Costa,34.
She has left her home country of Honduras together with 15 other members of her family.
She has had enough with the situation in her country and is travelling on foot from Honduras, hoping to make it as far as the US with the latest migrant caravan.
The caravans are comprised of people mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. They say they are fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries. Their aim is to reach the United States – a trek of over 3,000km.
Over 3,000 people took part in the most recent caravan. Caravans often start small in number, with just a few hundred people, but thousands join along the route. They travel in numbers for safety – the migrants’ route from Central America through Mexico is notoriously dangerous, with many active gangs along the route.
The migrants intend on reaching the United States so as they can find work and send remittances back to their families. However, US officials are taking an increasingly hard line against migration on their southern border, warning that anyone found entering the country illegally will face arrest, prosecution and deportation.
She has made it to the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Many thousands of others like Margarita have joined these migrant caravans in Central America, fleeing countries plagued by instability, corruption, inequality and some of the worst violence seen outside of conflict zones.
"We have crime and insecurity, everything is awful," she says.
Wesley Erazo, 19, has left Honduras with her two children. "There are no jobs and no chance to provide for your family" she says. Furthermore, the violence is "getting worse and worse". She is travelling together with a group in the caravan who all came from the same neighbourhood in the city of San Pedro Sula, which is one of the most violent cities in Honduras.
"I tell them, that age doesn´t matter, that we can work as much as kids do" says Alejandro Perez who is 54. He has decided to leave his home in Guatemala to join the caravan so that he might be able to find work to support his family. In Guatemala, he says "if you are over 50, there is no chance for you to find a job". He hasn’t been able to find work in the last 3 months and has seven children. He says "the only chance I have is to go to México".
In Honduras "the situation is difficult, there is no work, and a lot of crime" says Cintia Alvarez, 26, from the capital Tegucigalpa. She has three children but left them behind with her mother. "I am going to fight for them and for my mum" she says. "We can´t go on like this, so we have to look for a better life somewhere else".
For Zulna Rodriguez, 30, the lack of women’s rights was the main reason she left her country, El Salvador. Waiting at the border with her son and daughter, she says "It seems like if you complain about something, they would be blind, deaf and mute. So, this, sometimes forces you to leave your country".
Maritza Avila (38) decided to join the caravan with her two daughters to flee the violence and corruption of Honduras. Maritza says that the "truth is we came here to see if we can get asylum or, if we can reach USA and find help there".
However, the reality is that getting into the US may be extremely challenging.
Most of the thousands of migrants who set off on earlier caravans have ended up stranded at the Mexican border city of Tijuana for the last two months. The Mexican authorities are struggling to provide for the influx, but have offered asylum and work permits to the migrants.
As they continue their difficult journey, international organisations and NGOs like Trócaire have been supporting the migrants on their journey, providing them with food, shelter, dignity kits, medical assistance and legal advice.
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Brian O'Donovan discusses the arrival of the caravan of migrants from Central America at the US border on Morning Ireland.
For most of the migrants in the latest caravan, they will still try their best to get in to the US, to seek asylum and build a new life.
At the Guatemala-Mexico border, Maritza has hope of making it to the US. She says "we believe that our dreams can still come true, that we will be able to help our families".
Cintia also tries to remain positive, saying "if you are not determined, you´ll never know where you will get. We are going forward, somewhere else, looking for jobs, fighting for our families".
