Migrant caravan gathers on Guatemala border to enter Mexico en masse
Reuters
Published:
January 19, 2020
Updated:
January 19, 2020 3:24 PM EST
Migrants from Central America, part of a caravan travelling to the U.S., grab water as they wait to cross into Mexico at the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in El Ceibo, Guatemala, January 18, 2020. VICTOR PENA / REUTERS
TECUN UMAN — Hundreds of Central Americans gathered on the Guatemala-Mexico border on Sunday, aiming to cross en masse early on Monday in what could prove a stiff test of the Mexican government’s pledge to satisfy U.S. demands to curb migrant flows.
President Donald Trump has threatened to hurt Mexico and Central American countries economically if they allow large numbers to reach the U.S. border. U.S. border agents have tracked the latest exodus from Honduras this week.
Small groups of migrants crossed the bridge from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Saturday after Mexican National Guardsmen repelled an attempt by some of the Central Americans to force their way through the border gates.
Afterwards, most of the migrants withdrew to Tecun Uman to await the arrival of more travellers behind them in the hope they stand a better chance of progressing in one caravan.
“We’ve been getting organized,” said Jose Luis Cruz, a 33-year-old autoworker from Comayagua, Honduras, who left behind a wife and two children in a bid to reach the United States.
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Cruz said migrants waiting in Tecun Uman wanted to try and enter Mexico en masse at around 5 a.m. on Monday, hoping that authorities would let them pass to avoid clashes.
“If we cross alone, they’ll get us, and all the sacrifices we’ve made to get here will have been in vain,” he added.
Guatemala’s government says at least 4,000 people have entered from Honduras since Wednesday, making for one of the biggest surges since three Central American governments signed agreements with the Trump administration obliging them to assume more of the responsibility of dealing with migrants.
Tecun Uman’s main migrant shelter quickly filled to capacity with 600 people, and another 1,300 broke their journey in a second, makeshift refuge, said local priest Alfredo Camarena.
Mexican authorities have so far controlled the border more successfully than in late 2018, when a large caravan of people sought to break through at the same crossing. Many later crossed into Mexico via the Suchiate River dividing the two countries.
Mexico has offered migrants work in the south, but those who do not accept it or seek asylum will not be issued safe conduct passes to the United States, the interior ministry said.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/mi...-on-guatemala-border-to-enter-mexico-en-masse
OH ITS ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
The Mexicans PROMISED Trump that they would tighten their border with Guatemala
as part of the new NAFTA Agreement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But at the time I did comment that the level of Mexican interest in doing as promised................
MIGHT BE RATHER LOWER than the Yankees hoped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We shall see if I was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN OTHER NEWS - HOW SAD THAT TRUMP COULD DO LITTLE WITH OUR IDIOT BOY JUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider this news:::::
Here is an article illustrating how LIE-beral policy is making U.S./Canada relations much worse!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
U.S. search warrant accuses Canadian resident of smuggling Mexicans across northern border
By Jason Proctor CBC News
Published January 15, 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is tasked with monitoring both the southern and the northern border for migrants crossing into the country illegally.
They paid $2,000 US to cross B.C.'s border with Washington state.
And they would have owed a smuggler another $11,500 US once they reached their destination.
Instead, the group of 10 Mexicans — including two children — were caught by U.S. border patrol agents in the back of a white van about five kilometres south of the Canadian border the day after they made their late-night crossing last May.
(And how did the illegal Mexicans get to Canada?? Legally of course - thanks to the Trudope LIE-beral choice to eliminate the need for Mexicans to get a visa before travelling to Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(This is just the latest problem created by the visa issue - we also have many other South American residents PRETENDING to be Mexicans and jetting into Canada for invalid reasons such as conducting criminal activities here - until they are caught and then they make fake refugee claims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Naturally the accused fake Mexican criminals eventually have their fake refugee claims denied -but the process takes years as we know - and devours govt resources we cannot afford -and creates a “homeless crisis” as our govt shelters fill with illegals that LIE-berals are collecting as if they were crazy cat ladies gathering up strays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(So we pay for crimes committed on us by illegals, then we pay for the idiot charade of immigration court and then we pay to send the criminals back home!!!)
In a search warrant sworn to obtain phone records, U.S. authorities now allege a Canadian permanent resident is part of a group smuggling Mexican nationals into the U.S. from B.C. and from Alberta into Montana and eventually on to Texas.
(“Permanent resident” is LIE-beral speak meaning the person is a former immigrant who has been given the gift of Cdn citizenship - and is using that new legal power to mess up international relations for PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The warrant was filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana.
According to a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the document would normally have been sealed, as the investigation is ongoing, but appears to have been made public in error.
Regardless, the document names several people — including a resident of Canada and a visitor to Canada — who are suspected in four separate illegal border crossings involving more than two dozen migrants. 'One of them had two young children'
CBC is not naming the individuals under investigation, as none of them has been charged. They are identified by initials for the purpose of this story.
They could not be reached for comment and the search warrant does not give any details of their whereabouts.
(Maybe they went back home to hide out and get more Fake Id`s???????????)
But, according to the documents, border patrol investigator Shane Rice says he obtained a phone belonging to the Canadian resident.
"Instant messages sent and received during the smuggling event were discovered stored within the telephone," Rice writes in the application to obtain the warrant.
"These messages talk about ... the difficulty crossing the border due to the number of Border Patrol vehicles on the road and the inability to move quickly because one of the smuggled persons had a bad leg and one of them had two young children."
The warrant is for information contained on the phone of another of the suspects.
Heightened security on the U.S. border with Mexico under the administration of President Donald Trump has led American law enforcement officials to warn about the vulnerability of the northern border.
"At 5,500 miles in length, the northern border of the United States stands as the longest common border in the world," CBP spokesperson Jason Givens said in an email.
(And that northern border is guarded by Cdn LIE-berals who think it is amusing to close their eyes to any event or activity that injures or angers Yankees!! And yet always insulting LIE-berals wonder why they are not respected either by Yankees or frustrated Cdns who are tired of trespassing illegals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
U.S. border patrol statistics show an increase in apprehensions of migrants crossing the northern border illegally from 3,230 in 2013 to 4,316 in 2018.
(Oh nice - thanks to Our idiot Boy Justin - illegals are now more likely to consider Canada as an easy backdoor entry to North America and are thus giving Yankee Tea Party types more encouragement to CLOSE THE BORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
During the same period, the number of apprehensions at the U.S. border with Mexico dropped from 414,397 in 2013 to 396,579 in 2018.
Overall, the numbers show a gradual decline in the number of apprehensions over the past two decades: there were 12,108 apprehensions at the northern border in 2000 and more than 1.6 million people caught at the southern border the same year.
The investigation detailed in the search warrant begins in August 2018 with a traffic stop of a U.S. citizen in Texas — identified here as MG — who was found to be transporting Mexicans from Montana to Houston.
A month later, MG was stopped in Montana in the hours after surveillance cameras recorded an alleged associate walking north from the U.S. into Canada.
The same associate was identified in surveillance footage on May 1, 2019. But the warrant says he was now acting as the "foot-guide" for a group of 12 people travelling in the opposite direction — into the U.S. from southwestern Alberta.
"The foot-guide will commonly be found in the front of the group to lead and set a travelling pace for the group," Rice writes.
"I know that at night, groups will form a single file line and follow the exact path of the foot guide."
Ten days later, cameras recorded the crossing of another group of people into Washington, where they were apprehended.
Rice says agents also stopped MG driving a pickup the same night.
He "claimed to be lost and on a road trip from New Mexico," the documents say. The agents released MG, but later learned that he was a suspect in the earlier human smuggling cases.
At roughly the same time, Canadian police stopped two vehicles north of the border. One was driven by ER, a Mexican citizen in Canada as a visitor, and the other by EP, a Mexican citizen in Canada as a permanent resident.
According to Rice, EP's sister had once been married to MG.
(Isnt that nice - the extended family is developing a new industry in Canada!!!!!!)
EP "admitted to dropping off the group to enter into the United States," the warrant says.
A month later, EP was also allegedly photographed crossing the border illegally back into Alberta a day after RCMP equipment recorded a group of four to six migrants going in the opposite direction.
According to the warrant, evidence shows the same group of alleged smugglers were linked to a September 2019 border crossing of six to eight people in southwestern Alberta.
(Such busy enterprising Bees!! Trudope DID SAY our economy is “booming” He just forgot to mention the CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In the hours after the group crossed into Montana, MG was stopped in the area by border agents who questioned and released him. MG said he was camping nearby with EG's sister — his ex-wife.
He told investigators the pair were trying to "rekindle the flame."
No charges have been filed against any of the suspects. RCMP did not respond to a call for comment. Givens said the investigation in the U.S. is ongoing.
(Given the Cdn LIE-beral attitude to illegals - one wonders if Yankees are getting ANY REAL CDN AID to halt this smugglers invasion?? And we should ask HOW PISSED Yankees are becoming as ARROGANT CDN LIE-beral swine mock and sabotage ALL Yankee political policy?????????????)
(How long will the border stay open when this kind of LIE-beral crap keeps happening?????????????????????)
