“All those who entered illegally and send them back to their country’s border have been ordered to be arrested,” Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said thursday in a televised confrontation with the nation. “We will not allow any foreigner to have used illicit means to enter the country, to think that he has the right to come and infect us and put us in danger. “
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Authorities had planned to search the migrants when they passed the previous Thursday and offer assistance to those seeking to turn around, but the organization crossed the border into unsigned Corinth, beating Guatemalan police and infants who made little attempt. to prevent them.
However, Giammattei issued an order suspending certain constitutional rights in the provinces where they were meant to pass, to facilitate their detention.
Hours after crossing the border, the Guatemalan government reported the first death of a migrant: a user tried to board a cell trailer but fell under its wheels, the government did not provide additional details.
Many migrants didn’t pass through Guatemala before they had to prevent last night. By mid-afternoon, migrants had crawled in small teams for miles along a road, some walking and others walking in the warm sun.
In one organization there were 4 teenagers, all friends and neighbors of San Pedro Sula, from where many migrants had come out the night before. The teens left after seeing others get dressed on Facebook.
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The youngest, Josty Morales, 15, told The Associated Press that he sought to live the “American dream” and was looking for ways to reach his 6-month-old son at home.
“There’s no work, ” he said. Necessity strangles you. “
The chances of a giant caravan of migrants reaching America’s already weak border have been increasingly reduced over the past year. Under pressure from the United States, Mexico deployed its national guard and more immigration officials to dismantle the caravans attempted last year.
Mexico’s immigration firm said this week that it would implement a “safe, orderly and legal” migration and that it would do nothing to announce the formation of a caravan. The U. S. embassy in Honduras said Wednesday on Twitter that migration to the United States was more complicated than ever at the time, and more damaging due to coronavirus.
Christian Martinez, 19, trying the trip, saw it depart as a way out, while in Honduras few more features were evident.
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“If we stay, what we have left is the criminals because there is no way to survive,” he said.
Halfway through Guatemala City, Martinez and his partners had complexes on foot and a few times, they said they were all dressed in masks but were worried about the pandemic.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.