More democrat votersA caravan of Honduran migrants is approaching the U.S. border ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration, creating the first major test of Biden's plan to reverse many of Donald Trump's immigration policies.
'We recognize the importance of the incoming Government of the United States having shown a strong commitment to migrants and asylum seekers, which presents an opportunity for the governments of Mexico and Central America to develop policies and a migration management that respect and promote the human rights of the population in mobility,' said a statement from Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a migrants right group.
'We will advocate that the Biden government honors its commitments.'
A caravan of Honduran immigrants appear to be making its way towards the United States as soon as this week
The Associated Press reports the migrants crossed into Guatemala on Friday night without registering after departing from San Pedro Sula in Honduras earlier in the day.
The National Immigration Institute in Mexico has been posting videos and images showing what awaits migrants when they try to cross into the country: various agents and National Guard members, ready to protect the border.
The potential arrive of a migrant caravan to the United States harkens back to the midterm elections in 2018, when Trump made it a central issue.
On Friday, many of the migrants forced their way into Guatemala without registering in the country
Pictured: Migrants cross into Guatemala and past the Guatemalan soldiers patrolling their border
Joe Biden has vowed to reverse many of Trump's immigration policies and the caravan may be his first big policy test
Honduran migrant caravan 1,000 strong demands that Biden match his rhetoric about refugees | Daily Mail Online
Odd that so many people would want to come to such a racist country.Hundreds of Honduran migrants are headed for the United States border, just days after Vice President Pence sat down with the Central American country’s leader, urging him to take a tougher stance on mass migrations.
At least 1,300 people, including young children, left San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras on Saturday, in what some are calling the “March of the Migrant,” Reuters reported.
Bartolo Fuentes, the organizer, told the news agency that the group plans to march through Guatemala and into Mexico. From there, participants will request refugee status, which would allow them to stay in the country, or they will apply for a visa to pass through into the U.S.
The development came just days after Pence met with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala and Vice President Oscar Ortiz of El Salvador, asking them to step up and help combat illegal immigration in return for help from the U.S.
Hundreds of Hondurans head for US border in mass migration 'march': report
Hispanics tend to be Catholic. Catholics hate abortion. WTF are you talking about?
They are already here bud. I have read estimates that stay around 30MM illegals here now. 10% of the population roughly. From my subjective view it seems there are more ... but with me living in Charlotte and working construction, I understand that I see far more than most people do.
While I love the guys who work with/for me and respect them and their work ethic, I am smart enough to know that illegal immigration has to be stopped or this entire country will be Northern Mexico...bet yall would be surprised how few of them are actually from Mexico though. Maybe 1 in 4...rest are Honduras, Guatemala, Dom Rep, etc. Mexico is, when compared to the others, much more stable and wealthy. Those smaller central American countries are 3rd world and have low standards of living when compared to Mexico...1 of my favorite dudes on Earth named Freddie is from Honduras...very good carpenter built like a Panzer tank who does more work in a day then most of us do in a week, and he said back home where his parents live 7 bucks US a day is a good job and 10 bucks a day is a GREAT job. Again, not unskilled labor...he makes 20 bucks an hour here and works 50 to 55 hrs a week. So minimum of 1000 a week. Do the math on that one. $42 for a 6 day week there vs $1000 to $1100 here. 7 months there to a week's earnings here roughly? If you lived in a "dirt floor poor" country with those prospects, wouldn't you do whatever you could to get here? When you have friends and family members who already made that journey and survived...so they send their Mamas $200 a week and they live like kings? Some of my guys build mansions back home set on BIG farms...have hundreds to thousands of cattle on their farms/ranches that Dad or brothers etc tend to...Mom and Dad live there too of course in their own new houses. I would have done the same as them. Come here too...made as much as possible then go home to retire a rich man.
We have to put a stop to it though. It will wreck this country and economy... we need to finish the border wall and change our laws and deportation practices. Got. To. Stop.
A worker visa program that allows needed labor to cross the border back and forth might cut down on the illegal migrations. Many come here and stay because they're afraid that returning to their own countries would mean another illegal crossing to get back into the States. We cannot adopt masses of populations from other countries. We are no longer a frontier nation, and our ability to sustain our population without destroying our environment is already strained. Over population is a real problem, and we should not just ignore our own problems in order to appease the desires of hundreds of millions of people who want to come here.
Thousands of US-bound Honduran migrants are beaten back with batons and tear-gas by masked Guatemalan security forces as Joe Biden unveils immigration reform
Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants were removed from a road in Guatemala where they camped out after security forces blocked their path to the United States
Video footage on social media and local television showed lines of military and National Police officers wielding plastic shields as they moved down the road towards the asylum seekers near the Guatemalan village of Vado Hondo, some 34 miles from the borders of Honduras and El Salvador.
The removal was confirmed by the Guatemalan Institute of Migration a day after the administration of President-elect Joe Biden urged the migrants to return back to Honduras and their other native lands.
Guatemalan Police dissolves the caravan of thousands of people that blocked the road in Vado Hondo on Monday
Thousands of migrants stranded at Guatemala and Honduras border
Security remains high as migrants who arrived in caravan from Honduras try to make their way to the United States in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, on Monday
Migrants holding the American and Honduran flags block a road in the Guatemalan village of Vado Hondo before security forces removed them Monday
A migrant cries along with her child after the police dispersed the caravan of thousands of people that blocked the road in Vado Hondo, Guatemala
Thousands of Honduran migrants, who since Thursday night have marched towards Guatemala in hopes of reaching the United States, were forcefully dispersed by Guatemalan security forces on Monday. Cops and soldiers fired tear gas at the migrants who were camping out along a highway in the village of Vado Hondo, about 34 miles from the borders of Honduras and El Salvador. According to Guatemala immigration authorities, more than 1,000 Hondurans were sent back on Sunday and an additional 100 migrants were returned to El Salvador. At least 21 Honduran migrants who joined the caravan tested positive for COVID-19 and were hospitalized. They will be sent back to Honduras once they have recuperated
Honduran who joined a new caravan of almost 8,000 migrants who want to seek asylum from the United States rest on a stretch of a road in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, before Guatemalan security forces moved in and forced them to disperse
A migrant from Honduras clashes with Guatemalan cops and soldiers in the village of Vado Hondo on Monday
Thousands of Honduran migrants clash with security forces in Guatemala to make their way to the U.S | Daily Mail Online