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    Default migrant caravan is heading to the US. Trump has already taken note

    A new migrant caravan is heading to the United States. And US President Donald Trump has already weighed in, threatening to cut foreign aid to Honduras if the group isn't brought back to the Central American country.

    The caravan, which organizers say numbers thousands of people, formed in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on Saturday and crossed into Guatemala on Monday.
    Guatemala detained one of the caravan's coordinators on Tuesday, a Guatemalan government source told CNN. But other members of the caravan were still trekking north.

    The big question: Will authorities detain them before they reach the US border?

    Members of the group told CNN en Español that they decided to join the caravan and head to the United States because of insecurity and a lack of jobs in Honduras. Many are traveling with children in tow.
    As local media documented the first steps of the group's journey over the weekend, government officials across the region spoke out, advising them to turn back.

    The US Embassy in Honduras warned of the dangers of the journey and noted that the United States would enforce its immigration laws. Mexico's foreign ministry released a statement noting that travelers should consult its migration laws before trying to enter.

    "Please bear in mind that current legislation does not permit entry into Mexico if requirements to travel to a neighboring country have not been met," the statement said. "To avoid surprises, please inform yourself before starting out."

    But the caravan continued undeterred.

    Police in Esquipulas, Guatemala, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border, blocked their path for nearly two hours on Monday, according to local media reports, but eventually allowed them to continue their journey after the migrants refused to turn back.

    Bartolo Fuentes, one of the coordinators of the caravan, told CNN on Monday the group planned to apply for humanitarian visas in Mexico that would allow them to travel through the country to the US border.
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    Six months ago, another high-profile caravan headed to the border

    This caravan's emergence comes nearly six months after another caravan consisting largely of Honduran immigrants reached the US-Mexico border.
    That group's approach sparked a Twitter tirade by Trump, and days later spurred his decision to deploy National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border. Trump also threatened foreign aid to Honduras at that time.
    Ultimately, hundreds of migrants from that group crossed the US border and asked for asylum.

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    Honduras receives millions in US foreign aid
    Honduras, the second-poorest country in Central America, is plagued by widespread gang violence.
    San Pedro Sula, where this caravan began, has been described as one of the world's murder capitals.

    Honduras is set to receive more than $65 million in foreign aid from the United States in the 2019 fiscal year, according to a US government website tracking foreign assistance, which describes "alarming levels of crime and violence, high levels of poverty and food insecurity, and ineffective governance and corruption" in Honduras.
    Experts have argued that US foreign aid has helped stem violence

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/ameri...van/index.html

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    For profit prisons, detention centers and child interment means US jobs. Just like selling arms to Islamist radicals in Saudi Arabia.

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    screw this noise.

    The wall has to get build,and that forces them into authorized ports of entry instead of sneaking in and claiming asylum ( which is more horseshit -these are economic refugees) and then we turn them back and this nonsense ends

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    Guatemalan police checkpoint

    If they were really afraid for their lives they would stay in Guatemala or Mexico - except those countries
    aren't stupid like we are. They know they don't want that -they want the USA and those countries enable them.

    We should start cutting off foreign aid to those governments until they stop the caravans

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