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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. Small groups pressed on toward the Mexican border, while others accepted rides from authorities back to Honduras. Many of the migrants were driven by an increasingly desperate situation in Honduras, where the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and two major hurricanes in November have piled atop chronic poverty and gang violence. That combined with a hope that the new U.S. administration of President-ele...

“We can’t go home,” Vinicio said after getting off the bus at the El Florido border crossing, keeping an eye on his two youngest children. The girls, ages 2 and 3, were laughing and playing on a railing outside the Honduran immigration offices. Their father was wracked with stress. “We will hide out until we can leave again,” he said. Crackdowns on migrant caravans in recent years have come amid U.S. pressure on Mexico and Central American countries to stop migrants and asylum-seekers long before they reach the U.S. southern border. Regional militarization in respo...

For Joe Biden, contentious issues lie ahead in Mexico-US relationship     U.S. experts monitoring Mexico’s compliance with the tough labor provisions of the USMCA free trade treaty issued a stark warning before Christmas: “No more business as usual.” Although they were referring to Mexico’s slow progress in implementing commitments under the NAFTA replacement, the phrase could just as well describe bilateral relations as Joe Biden enters the White House. Strained security co-operation will loom high on the agenda between the neighboring countries, overshadowing their US $600-billion...

Asylum seekers at US-Mexico border see hope in Biden administration immigration changes Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times Migrants react to Biden halting border wall Replay Video UP NEXT EL PASO, Texas — Hope among asylum seekers bloomed in Mexican border cities Thursday after President Joe Biden's administration halted the controversial "Remain in Mexico" program and said it would review asylum policies. "The truth is that they are now filled with hope," said Miguel Gonzalez, who runs the Pasos de Fe shelter in Juárez, Mexico, where migrant families enrolled in the prog...

The second migrant caravan of 2021 is set to depart Honduras on January 25 Facebook users urged migrants to meet up in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the day before A prior caravan left Honduras last Thursday and swelled up to 8,000 individuals By Tuesday it was broken up by Guatemalan security forces   Guatemalan TV network Televisiete reported Wednesday that at least 3,000 migrants plan to gather in a second attempt to reach the United States border Televisiete also learned that a caravan of migrants has been scheduled to depart El Salvador on February 14