Desperate Honduran migrants trapped on a bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico jumped into the river below and swam or scrambled aboard makeshift rafts in a bid to get to the shore.

One raft fashioned from two large tire inner tubes and wooden planks carried 14 people. Some migrants made their way down river, where they attempted to enter Mexican territory.

More than a thousand members of the caravan, fleeing violence in Honduras and hoping to seek asylum in the U.S., got stuck on the Suchiate River Bridge when Mexican riot police pushed them back after the Hondurans surged forward and broke through a barricade on Friday.

On Saturday, Mexican officials allowed dozens of women and children from the migrant group into their country, saying they would begin processing their asylum claims.

Immigration authorities said they had taken the arrivals to a shelter in the city of Tapachula, about 25 miles away from the bridge.

The women ran forward when immigration officers unchained a gate that had been pinning back the crowd at the crossing.

“I’m happy, happy! At last!” shouted a relieved Gina Paola Montes, 21, as she ran onto Mexican territory.

Eva Hernandez, 42, a Honduran activist, said officials promised the migrants that they would receive refugee permits and a safe place to stay.

The crowd on the bridge thinned overnight from about 3,000, as some migrants gave up and turned back, while others went to a nearby town in search of food.

Several leaped from the bridge into the river, which forms the western part of the Mexico-Guatemala border.

Downriver, smaller groups of migrants sought help from residents who routinely cross between the two countries in small boats.

Some made it to the Mexican side with local help, and without opposition from Mexican police seen at the bridge.

“Is that an incredible situation?” President Donald Trump said Saturday during a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada.

“We’re going to figure it out,” he said, suggesting he had found a solution to the crowd of migrants but planned to keep that information “low key until the election.”

The president has said he will use the military to deter the migrants if Mexico doesn’t stop them. At a rally Friday, he said, “They’re not coming into this country.”