New Caravan of Central
American migrants in search of better lives
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| Honduran migrants walk in a caravan to the US (AFP) |
With the eyes of the US Immigration firmly focused on its
borders, Mexico is facing yet another Central American Caravan of migrants
seeking a better and more prosperous life on their side of the Continent.
By James Blears
The Government of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, which has already sent thousands of its National Guard to its hitherto
porous Southern and Northern Borders, says the latest caravan numbering less
than a thousand people, won`t be allowed to traverse its territory.
The caravan left the Honduran City of San Pedro Sula,
earlier this week.
Guatemala`s newly inaugurated President Alejandro Giammattei
says that those with the correct documentation will be allowed in. He has vowed
to investigate the terms of an Agreement signed by his predecessor with
Washington. That purportedly states that if Guatemala is the first stop
off for migrants, then it must accommodate them while their US asylum requests
are being considered. President Giammattei has already met with Mexican
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who`s not commented.
Thousands of would be migrants trying to reach US soil are
already stranded in transit camps in Northern Mexico. Mindful of this, Mexican
Minister of the Interior Olga Sanchez the migrants won`t be able to gain even
temporary transit visas. However, if they want to stay and make Mexico
home, they`re welcome.
Mexico is well aware of previous dire threats of
economic sanctions from the United States, unless undocumented migration was
drastically curtailed, and it swiftly complied. So much so, that the current
exodus trickle evaporates here.
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