OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:02 AM PT — Thursday, January 16, 2020
A new caravan of migrants is headed north from Honduras in hopes of
reaching the U.S. border. Hundreds of people recently started walking
from the city of San Pedro Sula for the weeks-long journey.Most caravan attempts in 2019 were broken up by law enforcement in Mexico after continued pressure from the U.S. However, migrants gathered at bus terminals and hitched rides to join the group this week after an advertisement circulated on social media and local news.
Some migrants have admitted the journey will be tough, but have decided to leave their families behind and give it try regardless of the risks.
“You know very well that here the
economic situation is not right. Every day things are getting more
expensive, and we have children and family and we can not afford them.
We believe that by traveling we can have more opportunities to get ahead
of those who remain here, everything depends on God.”
— Denis Irias, Honduran migrant
“We were sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Guatemala and Honduras, we’re not going to send it anymore,” said the president. “We haven’t been sending it for the last year because they weren’t doing anything for us…they were forming caravans and sending them up, and in those caravans you have some very bad actors, you had some people that we would not want in our country.”
Mexico’s foreign minister has reportedly told the Guatemalan government the migrants will not be allowed to enter Mexico. Some migrants have said they will stay and live in Guatemala where there are job opportunities if they cannot reach the U.S.
