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2020-10-04 Caribbean-Latin America

Hondurans in migrant caravan bused back after entering Guatemala

Their US organizers trying to affect the election
[FoxNews] Hundreds of Honduran migrants bound for the U.S. were bused back to their homeland by Saturday morning after illegally entering Guatemala.

*Snicker* The orders came down from on high to stop shaking up the normies.

The group of mostly young men and some small children were met by a large roadblock of Guatemalan authorities after the country's President Alejandro Giammattei promised Thursday to detain and return anyone who entered illegally.

"We will not allow any foreigner who has used illegal means to enter the country, to think that they have the right to come and infect us [with coronavirus] and put us at serious risk," Giammattei said in a broadcast address to the nation.

None of the 1,000 or so migrants who had been stalled by police and soldiers remained along the stretch of rural highway by 5 a.m. Saturday, The Associated Press reported.

Hours earlier, migrants had boarded buses and army trucks to be taken back to the border, police said.

Authorities had planned to register the migrants as they crossed earlier Thursday and offer assistance to those willing to turn back, but the group crossed the border at Corinto without registering, initially pushing past outnumbered Guatemalan police and soldiers who made little attempt to stop them. They later met the roadblock near San Luis Peten.

Within hours of the border crossing, Guatemalan authorities reported the first migrant death. A person tried to climb aboard a moving flatbed trailer but fell under its wheels. Authorities did not immediately provide any additional details.
Senorita Rachel Corrie?
Many of the migrants didn't make it far into Guatemala before having to stop. Soon, they strung out in small groups for miles along the highway, as some caught rides and others walked under the hot sun.

In one group were four teenagers, all friends and neighbors from San Pedro Sula, from which hundreds of migrants had set out together. The teens decided to leave after seeing others organize on Facebook.

Who? Who organized it?

The youngest, 15-year-old Josty Morales, told the AP he wanted to live the "American dream" and was looking for a way to support his 6-month-old son at home. "There's no work," he said. "The necessity strangles you."

Don’t make babies you can’t support, idiot. A ~~box~~ ~~crate~~ truckload of condoms is cheaper than eighteen years of child support.

On Friday, more than 100 Guatemalan soldiers and police blocked the migrants, who became increasingly frustrated with the lack of food and forward movement after walking from Honduras earlier this week.

Migrants' pleaded with authorities to either let them through or provide them food.

Some of the original 2,000 migrants voluntarily agreed to return to Honduras, Guatemalan immigration authorities said.

Other migrants also split off the main route and headed for Guatemala City either by walking or catching a ride.

While Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Friday the migrants were walking to the U.S. to affect the American presidential election, Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said, Mexico is "morally, legally and politically obliged to help them." He said they don't represent a coronavirus risk.
Then house them with your family
Last year, President Trump threatened massive tariffs on Mexican imports if authorities didn't slow the flow of migrants to the border. Mexico responded by deploying the National Guard and more immigration agents to intercept large groups of migrants.

The tariff threat still holds, O Assistant Health Secretary.

Posted by Frank G 2020-10-04 11:59|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Human Trafficking

#1 Hotair: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador echoed the Guatemalan government’s concerns over the caravan potentially spreading the novel coronavirus, but he also speculated about political motives for the caravan’s formation. He believes that it was formed with the intent to influence the American elections next month. While not saying who he thought such a maneuver might benefit, he said that Mexico is “not naive” and could see the writing on the wall.

That’s not a particularly crazy idea. Having a couple of thousand migrants show up at the border carrying children (either their own or ones they are trafficking) would likely give the American liberal media some great photo opportunities. They would probably have arrived right near the end of the month and the press would obviously take the opportunity to talk about Donald Trump’s “cruel anti-immigrant policies” right before people head to the polls.

The Associated Press interviewed several of the migrants and the stories they tell are very much in line with the point that John was making on Friday. None of the people quoted in the linked article talked about political oppression at home or open warfare. They all said they were looking for work, making them economic migrants. And that’s not a category that typically qualifies for asylum, though most of them no doubt planned to put in a claim once they reached our borders.

While I don’t want to sound too harsh here, we already have more than enough people out of work in the United States thanks to the plague, so we really don’t need the competition for jobs. Also, the President’s “Remain in Mexico” policy is still in effect and being supported by the Mexican government, so most of those people would have been sent back across the border anyway. (Assuming they didn’t find a coyote to smuggle them across.) A few small groups were still on the road heading north as of last night, but nowhere near the thousands that might have been on the way had the President’s new policies not gone into effect. In that regard, we may have just dodged yet another bullet that we didn’t need to deal with along with all of the other garbage going on.

Posted by Frank G 2020-10-04 12:21|| 2020-10-04 12:21|| Front Page Top

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