Manuel Ocaño | La Prensa San Diego
Close to 1,500 migrants have departed from Honduras in two separate groups headed for the U.S.-Mexico border – tentatively Tijuana – with the intention of petitioning for asylum in the U.S.
The number is but a fraction of the 15,000 migrants that a Tijuana activist had assured would leave San Pedro Sula in the early hours of Jan. 15.
Because of the news of the potentially 15,000-member caravan, President Trump said during his visit to the Texas border that “a new, even larger is being formed in Honduras, larger than anything we’ve seen.”
However, only about 600 people left from San Pedro Sula and 900 more from other regions to meet up at the border with Guatemala and from there head north through Mexico towards the U.S. southern border, according to reporting received from Honduras through messaging app WhatsApp.
Mexican Government Pledges to Target Migrant Caravan Organizers
20 Jan 2021
Mexico’s immigration officials are now tasked with targeting “opportunists” who profit from and are promoting migrant caravans. The call for action comes as authorities deploy their National Guard to their southern border in anticipation of another caravan of about 9,000 looking to reach the U.S.
This week, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute (INAMI) deployed closed to 800 agents and members of the National Guard to secure the country’s border with Guatemala which consists of ports of entry, mountain passes, and rivers.
A fin de hacer cumplir la Ley de Migración y su reglamento, el @INAMI mx continúa con el operativo de vigilancia 24 horas en #ElCeibo, #Tabasco. Elementos del INM, @GN MEXICO y @SEDENAmx colaboran para mantener una migración regular en la zona. pic.twitter.com/DVhNk4kMkn
Mexico Jan 21, 2020
Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man’s land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico after running up against lines of Mexican National Guard troops deployed to keep them from moving en masse into the country and on north toward the U.S. Immigration Jan 19, 2020
The U.S. government says it will deport a Honduran mother and her two sick children, both of whom are currently hospitalized, to Guatemala as soon as it can get them medically cleared to travel, according to court documents and the family’s advocates. The family’s advocates accuse the U.S. of disregarding the health of the children, ages 1 and 6,.
Migrant caravan, now in Guatemala, could pose early test for Biden
By Austin Ramzy New York Times,Updated January 17, 2021, 6:15 p.m.
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Injured women, part of a Honduran migrant caravan trying to reach the US border, wept as they sat on the side of a highway after clashing with Guatemalan police and soldiers in Vado Hondo on Sunday.Sandra Sebastian/Associated Press
Thousands of migrants from Honduras have entered Guatemala and plan to continue north to the United States, potentially posing an early test of the immigration policies of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to ease the Trump administrationâs restrictions on asylum.
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