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Save the Children ‘deeply worried’ about 1,400 children in migrant caravan fleeing poverty, violence and climate impacts Format 21 Jan 2021 Mexico City, 21 January 2021 – As many as 1,400 children have been making a journey on foot in the latest migrant caravan through Central America, Save the Children said today, as they flee poverty, violence and the devastating impact of two hurricanes. The organisation is deeply worried about their safety and wellbeing. The figures emerge as some 300 migrants – including children – have reached the Suchiate River, which they can cross by swimmi...

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 returned on Tuesday to the El Florido border crossing where most of the group had entered Guatemala last F...

‘Trump had threatened Mexico with tariffs if it let in this caravan from Honduras. Two hours after crossing this river, many were teargassed then deported’

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.

A caravan of almost 8,000 migrants, mostly from Honduras, was broken up by Tuesday in Guatemala Migrants were bussed from the village of Vado Hondo, where they clashed with Guatemala security forces during weekend and Monday, and dropped off at the El Florido border crossing  The migrants left Honduras on Thursday and were able to march into Guatemala where they clashed with security forces blocking their path to Mexico The migrants were seeking passage into Mexico to continue their journey to the southern United States border and apply for asylum President-elect Joe Biden's Homeland Securi...