(CNN) Months after a migrant caravan sparked a fury of tweets from President Donald Trump and the eventual deployment of more than 5,000 active-duty troops to the southern border, another is forming in Honduras, this time against the backdrop of a partial government shutdown directly linked to Trump's border wall.

"There's another major caravan forming right now in Honduras and so far, we're trying to break it up," Trump told reporters last week.

"But so far, it's bigger than anything we've seen and a drone isn't going to stop it and a sensor isn't going to stop it, but you know what's going to stop it in its tracks? A nice, powerful wall," he added.

It's unclear how large the caravan will be and how exactly the administration is attempting to dismantle the group.

Migrant caravans, while not new, have become a regular talking point for the President in his case for cracking down on immigration. Trump latched on to a migrant caravan in the lead-up to the midterm election, casting the group as a national threat despite reports that it was largely made up of women and children seeking asylum, and appears to be raising it again as reason for his border wall.

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