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Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico braces for new caravan of Central American migrants
2019-03-29
MEXICO CITY (AP) ‐ Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the "mother of all caravans," even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.

Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.

"We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ’the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people," Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.

But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.

Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about "the mother of all caravans" were false, claiming "this is information that (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen is using to create fear."

His group, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said in a statement there was no evidence the new caravan would be that large, noting "there has never been a caravan of the size that Sanchez Cordero mentioned." Indeed, past caravans hit very serious logistical hurdles at 7,000-strong.

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Posted by:Besoeker

#3  This whole thing is fueled by Mexican support and their contemp for USA. Close the border and halt remittances as suggested above and make this parasite feel some serious pain. Also, put troops on the border and threaten martial law, a condition that allows the immediate return across the border of everyone without the lunacy of “due process”which has become the loophole of sovereign suicide for the US. Enough!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2019-03-29 13:03  

#2  Close the border for a couple days, stop remittances, and watch Messico have a shitfit
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-29 07:44  

#1  Why aren't we treating the organizers as the hostile agents they clearly are? Raising bodies of foreign nationals to invade multiple countries should be enough to make you an outlaw.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-03-29 06:09  

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