Thousands of migrants from Central America are marching their way to the United States. A migrant activist group representing the caravan is calling for the Biden administration to honor its “commitment.”
Guatemala’s immigration authority told Reuters that up to 8,000 migrants from Honduras have entered Guatemala since Friday. Guatemalan authorities said they have already detained hundreds of Honduran migrants from the caravan.
The caravan broke through a wall of law enforcement officers at the Guatemala border.
The migrants are fleeing political corruption, violence, and extreme poverty in Honduras, which all worsened due to the Covid-19 pandemic and two devastating Category 4 hurricanes that hit the country within a two-week span in November.
Maria Jesus Paz, mother of four who lost her home in the hurricanes, said “We have nothing to feed to our children, and thousands of us were left sleeping on the streets. This is why we make this decision, even though we know that the journey could cost us our lives.”
The mass migration started just a week before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The migrants are expecting that Biden will have a much more welcoming immigration policy than President Donald Trump.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a migrant rights group, issued a statement on behalf of the people participating in the first caravan of 2021. Fox News shared the statement:
“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. We will advocate that the Biden government honors its commitments.”
During his presidential campaign run, Biden pledged to end Migrant Protection Protocols on day one of his presidency. The program, which was enacted by the Trump administration in January 2019, makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico during the duration of their immigration court cases.
Biden’s immigration plan is expected to give a pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
Biden has also promised a moratorium on deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But Susan Rice, Biden’s domestic policy advisor, warned that changes in immigration wouldn’t happen immediately.
“Processing capacity at the border is not like a light that you can just switch on and off,” Rice told Spanish wire service EFE in December. “Migrants and asylum seekers absolutely should not believe those in the region peddling the idea that the border will suddenly be fully open to process everyone on Day 1. It will not.”
“Our priority is to reopen asylum processing at the border consistent with the capacity to do so safely and to protect public health, especially in the context of COVID-19,” Rice said. “This effort will begin immediately but it will take months to develop the capacity that we will need to reopen fully.”
The caravan reaching the U.S. border will depend on how much the Guatemalan and Mexican governments crackdown on the illegal immigrants traveling north toward the U.S.
Here we go, also need a bunch from the middle east as well !!!
We need to take of our veterans and citizens here in America!!!! No more people needed!!!! They need to back!!! And take some liberals with them!!!!!π
Spot on!!!!!!
Get ready all hell is going to break loose, we are in for a civil war for sure, most of the people that are here, at this point have nothing, no jobs, hungry, being evicted, lose cars, kids lives torn up. To me this is totally stupid.
I AM SICK OF THIS. YOU WANT TO LIVE IN MY COUNTRY THEN DO IT LEGALLY. STAY OUT. FIGHT TO MAKE YOUR OWN COUNTRY BETTER.
RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!
If there are that many of them they should ban together in their own country and start to make plaΓ±s to make their own country better because they are sure coming into ac mess in this country!
If our own troops have to be re vetted to make sure they are safe enough to be in DC, then every single man, woman, and child coming up to the border in their caravan to invade us should be screened and vetted to keep all disease carrying, insurrection minded, criminal and mentally unstable people out of the United States.
RighT!!!!!!!
This is nuts to destroy everything Trump accomplished! Chaos!!
ReTRUMPlican forEVER!!!!!!!
Biden and his fellow swamp dwellers have opened the door for more illegal aliens to flock into this country UNCHECKED. Biden’s administration will take this country DOWN in nothing flat. I don’t foresee ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT BIDEN OR HIS CABINET, ESPECIALLY HARRIS.
Susan Rice has the right idea in expressing caution in letting these immigrants in. After all, the public safety is still in mind. We should take care of our own people before others turn their attention to them.
One more result of the stolen Biden “election”.
Stupid .just wait ! When all … thisbull shit i.t starts ! sticking in your .ass.what did we do . I MY GOD! We are. F .π€π€π€π€π€π€
Finally , a picture of people showing up for a biden event.
Just not American citizens
Thank the demorats again. Socialism will be here shortly.
God help us! We are struggling and they want to March into our country and benefit. We as Americans are having a hard time. And I suppose they want $15 an hour when many have never been blessed with such high wages their entire life!!!This is madness asking for trouble allowing thousands and thousands of strangers marching in here with their hands out! Wake Up America!!! Moronic ideas being pushed upon us!!!!
WEre dooooooomED!!!!!!! THAT $15 will drop to less than $5 CAUSE theres no economy & those BOARDER JUMPERS will wrk for THAT most hasn’t seen $1 month in they’re country IF EVEN THAT that’s WHY their BEING ALLOWD here. WE need more uprisings!!!!
The U.S. made great strides in securing our borders in the last 3 years and now it seems this will all go out the window!! Where are these masses going?? We have homeless here in the United States that we need to be addressing first before opening the borders and also taking care of all our sick Covid patients!!! We have Veterans who have fought for this country who have no roof over their heads at all who are living on the streets while we have given a lot more to non-americans who have never done anything to better this country nor contribute to the work force!! Yet, they have a roof over their head, food stamps, and free health care!!! There is something wrong with our system. We need to take care of our own first. I do have a heart but we need to help our people first and then look beyond our borders. If we went to Mexico and wanted help, we would probably be found in front of a firing squad!
WEre dooooooomED!!!!!!! THAT $15 will drop to less than $5 CAUSE theres no economy & those BOARDER JUMPERS will wrk for THAT most hasn’t seen $1 month in they’re country IF EVEN THAT that’s WHY their BEING ALLOWD here. WE need more uprisings!!!!
Biden wonβt be President long. Democrats will use the 25th amendment to declare him mentally unbalanced. He then will be retired and an ultra liberal will take over and the complete distruction of this country will commence.
So, all these people are coming to our country! Now I ask the question: What is their government doing to help its citizens??? letβs place the responsibility where it belongs. βTheir country and government!!! However, most Latin American countries are corrupt and only filling their pocketbooks. clean them up and take care of its people!! Not A USA responsibility!!!!! Veteran
Welcome to Obamaβs third term because he so hates America. We are to believe that Biden is competent enough to understand executive orders instead of just rubber stamping Obamaβs destruction of America. He canβt find his way off stage without his wife leading him around. These democrats are not eligible to serve the public much less be lawmakers. Susan rice is the worlds most notorious liar. Bidenβs cabinet is lined with the worst anti American people in these United States. They could not win legally or by popular vote so they continue to lie and destroy everything great about America regardless off the laws protecting the United States from them. They do not deserve our respect in anyway.
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