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Violence, no jobs and gangs are driving thousands of people to walk the huge distance from their homes in Central America to the US - despite Donald Trump telling them they are not welcome.

Around 2,000 migrants are attempting to enter the US, with Mexican authorities attempting to stop them at the border.

Those travelling - some with very young children - have no certainty that their asylum bids or migration efforts in the US will be successful.

Emily Upton in Mexico and Sanya Burgess report on what people have left behind in the hope of a new chance.

Melvin Alexander, 16, from Guatemala

Aged 16, this Guatemalan teenager joined the caravan by himself in a bid to avoid getting caught up in local gangs.

My friends, or at least the people I used to call my friends, started getting into gangs. I didn't want to get into that life and things were getting quite dangerous for me.

I heard the caravan was passing through Guatemala so I decided to join.

My parents are divorced and I lived with an uncle, who said if I wanted to join the caravan then I should just go.

I felt secure in my decision because I knew there was a lot of people, so that helped me decide to come.

The journey has been very hard because we have walked so many kilometres but at the same time we are happy because of our reasons for making this walk.

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In America, I would like to study to be a doctor

We are also very thankful to the Mexican government because they have been very supportive.

I don't know if the president of America will let us in but I would like to go somewhere where I can be somebody in life and to work hard.

It's been a long time since I've been at school because I didn't have the resources to go.

Instead, I have been working in a car wash.

In America, I would like to study to be a doctor.

Rafael Gomez, 27, from Honduras

This father of five needs to find well-paid work to support his large family.

I used to work in construction - I would take any job. But I was earning very little and I have a wife and five children to support.

On a good day, I was making about $5. We have no hope of a better life in Honduras.

I was making about $5 on a good day in Honduras

Despite being deported from the US before, I will keep on trying.

Many people have already dropped out of the trip, and the longer we keep trying, the better are our chances, I feel.

I am hoping for asylum in America, to get a job and to make a new life.

Erika Pineda,18, from Honduras

A young mum, Erika is travelling with her husband and two children, aged four and one.

We want to get into the US.

That is what is motivating us, it's like our faith.

We are looking for a better life for our children but also for my family that I have left behind in Honduras.

There's so much violence and the Mara - specifically the gang the Mara Salvatrucha - is forcing us to get into the gangs. It's hard to avoid.

There's so much violence and the Mara is forcing us to get into the gangs. It's hard to avoid.

Both my husband and I worked in a factory before we left. Part of our salary went straight to the gangs to enable us to work freely.

The journey has been very hard ever since the beginning but people have been really supportive throughout the way.

It's been especially hard to travel with kids because of the heat. The children want water.

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It doesn't matter that the journey is hard. God is going to help us. God is going to give us the strength to get there.

The first thing we will need to do when we get there is to find somewhere to live.

I'm sure America are going to support us and give us asylum in the US. God will help us because there is nothing impossible for God. Once we are there, we will then work hard.

Jose Angel Cardon, 45, from Honduras

Travelling with his 25-year-old daughter, he hopes to find employment.

In Honduras there are no jobs - but there is a lot of debt and poverty.

We're honest people. We want to see if America will give us jobs and asylum.

The only thing I want to do is to work. Whatever they give me, well, then that's what I want to do.

I'm very tired. My feet ache. I'm so tired of walking. I've been walking since Honduras.

I don't know what will happen at the border. Only God knows what's going to happen. He knocks on doors and opens hearts.

I used to be a farmer but I also spent time working in construction when there were jobs. Now, there is no work.

I'm very tired. My feet ache. I'm so tired of walking. I've been walking since Honduras.

To make this journey I have left behind a wife and children.

I want to work so I can send money back to them.

Blanca Aguilar, 44, Honduras

A single mother of three children, Blanca Aguilar is in desperate need of money.

She said: "There's no money - which I need to raise my children."

I have three children and I've got no support from any other family.

Some neighbours didn't like me so they set fire to my house eight years ago. It burnt down and I lost everything in it.

Donald Trump has said we in this caravan are not welcome. I say to him that single mothers really need help because we don't have money and we have no money to maintain our children.

Rocael Monterroso, 45, from Guatemala

After being violently attacked by gangs, this father is travelling in the caravan with his four children.

Gangs tried to kill my family.

We used to have a business and we were extorted because that's what gangs do. They ask you for money.

We didn't want to give them that money and we denied it to them. So, they tried to kill us. All of us.

I was beaten to hell.

I was beaten to hell.

We decided to abandon our house and head north.

We can't live there anymore. There is so much violence.

The gangsters were put in jail after they tried to kill my son too, but they have more gangsters outside so we are not safe there.

We really have to go.

Fanny Perdomo, 28, from Honduras

Carrying her two-month-old baby girl in her arms, Fanny is making the journey in the hopes her children will have a better life than she has.

This journey has been tiring, it's been exhausting - but at the same time I'm enthusiastic. I'm discovering places I've never been before and that makes me happy.

I'm travelling with my baby and it's a challenge but it is also a challenge to give my children a better life. I want them to have the life that I did not get a chance to live.

On this long walk finding shelter is difficult. We have gone from park to park but thankfully the Mexicans have supported us so we haven't lacked food and water.

I hope President Trump will change his mind about not wanting us to come to America. We know he's said we are not welcome but maybe God will change his mind.

You ask me what I think of Mr Trump? I think he is a mean man.

Isabel Lazaro, 29, from Guatemala

This mother had four jobs a day but they did not pay enough.

My two daughters are with their father, but my two boys only have me.

I had four jobs a day in Guatemala and they did not pay enough. At the start of the day I would begin babysitting a girl at 5am, and then go to the market and sell fruit.

I had four jobs a day and they did not pay enough

If I am separated from my kids at the border, I will say, 'OK, take me back with them'.

But I am sure that God is going to help us.

Why would I let Donald Trump touch my kids?

I will never let anyone touch my kids.

Hilda Martinez, 32, from Honduras

This mother says seeing people with children younger than hers motivates her to continue.

If the kids get sick I will definitely go back.

I will fight until the end

I have thought about turning back because my daughter got a little bit sick, but then I thought I have got to continue.

I have seen people with kids younger than mine, and when I see them doing it, it motivates me to continue.

I will fight to the end.