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Reuters Reuters 20 January, 2021, 1:06 pm Some migrants said they were injured as security officials forced them from the road in Vado Hondo. Picture: REUTERS. EL FLORIDO, Guatemala (Reuters) – Guatemala on Tuesday pressed on with transporting migrants back to the border with Honduras, further thinning out a U.S.-bound caravan that was halted by security forces at the weekend. Nearly 8,000 people entered Guatemala from Honduras last week, local authorities said. A Reuters witness estimated ar...

Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.

EL FLORIDO, Guatemala • A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces.

Biden to Announce Broad Plan to Reverse Trump Immigration Policies Legislation he will propose on his first day as president will give undocumented immigrants the chance to become citizens and restore and expand programs for refugees and asylum seekers. Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2019 outside the Supreme Court.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times [Here’s .] WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will propose far-reaching legislation on...

The Associated Press FILE - In this June 7, 2018, file photo, the September 11 Memorial and Museum are seen from an upper floor of 3 World Trade Center in New York. A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York Citys 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) NEW YORK — A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in ...

January 21, 2021 VADO HONDO, GUATEMALA (AFP) – In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States (US), dashing their hopes of a better life there. On Monday, security forces broke up the caravan of some 4,000 migrants who had massed in the Guatemalan town of Vada Hondo on the first leg of their journey of thousands of kilometres through Central America on foot. They were being return...

CrisisInSight Weekly Picks, 20 January 2021 Format Bangladesh A fire broke out in Nayapara Registered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar on 14 January. The exact cause of the fire is unknown. The camp hosts about 22,500 Rohingya refugees. 3,492 people were affected and 550 shelters, a community centre, and around 150 shops were destroyed. The fire was brought under control in a few hours by the local fire department, volunteers, and refugees, resulting in no deaths or serious injuries. The shelters,...

A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces.

Expelled Honduran migrants cling on to American dream

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/guatemalan-military-clears-u-s-bound/"></div>VADO HONDO, Guatemala (Reuters) – Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States. The Guatemalan government said the road in the eastern part of the country reopened to traffic after [&...