San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Hundreds of migrants began marching Wednesday night from this northern Honduras city to the Guatemalan border, testing a well-defined migration address now at the time of the new coronavirus. Pedro Sula bus station on October 1 had been running on social media for weeks.
The caravan arrives just two weeks after Guatemala reopened its borders after keeping them sealed for months to curb COVID-19.
But most of the migrants accumulated on Wednesday made the decision not to wait until October and left in the dark of night with backpacks and masks.
The groups temporarily dispersed along the way with captivating walks while others continued to march towards the border with Guatemala.
At the end of Wednesday, Guatemala’s immigration firm said in a statement that its Honduran counterpart had said that some 900 migrants were in choloma city and were heading to the Corinthian border crossing.
Governments in the region said they were watching on Wednesday. Mexico’s immigration firm said in a statement that it would impose a “safe, orderly and legal” migration and that it would do nothing to announce the formation of a caravan of migrants. Twitter that migration to the United States is more complicated than ever now and more harmful due to COVID-19.
But the propelling points for Central American migrants did not in effect diminish the pandemic: the lack of work and the struggle of families to put food on the table have only gotten worse.
The United Nations International Labour Organization said Wednesday that at least 34 million jobs have been lost in Latin America due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the ILO ranks Latin America and the Caribbean as the most affected region globally in terms of lost working hours. 20. 9% in the first 3 quarters of the year.
The flow of migrants north from Central America significantly decreased the pandemic, and countries in the region ended their borders. Most migrant shelters along northern Mexico’s major roads have closed their doors to newcomers as they tried to prevent the virus from spreading to vulnerable areas. migrant populations: Mexico and the United States have returned many migrants to their home countries in an attempt to empty detention centers.
The U. S. government has not been able to do that. But it’s not the first time He used the pandemic to close the asylum formula at its southern border well, but as CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported in early September, arrests of unauthorized migrants along the southern border increased for the fourth consecutive month in August. with the U. S. immigration government. The U. S. making approximately 50,000 arrests and deporting most detainees under coronavirus restrictions.
More than 43,000 of the apprehensions in August resulted in abstract evictions, than the US border government. But it’s not the first time He was allowed to make the coronavirus pandemic, according to the knowledge of CBP (Customs and Border Protection). More evictions were made in August than in any other month from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order in mid-March to give them the green light.
Arrests recorded through CBP, the main measure used to assess border crossings, show that unauthorized migration to the United States continued to increase over the summer, despite the Trump administration’s pandemic and policy of temporarily deporting the maximum number of migrants, adding asylum seekers. unaccompanied children, without allowing them to seek humanitarian refuge.
Mexico has been searching for months to send stranded asylum seekers on its northern border to the south. Mexico has given migrants the opportunity to apply for asylum there, but many are looking for the United States.
Migrants are likely to find it more difficult to locate paintings in Mexico now, as the economy is expected to contract by 10% this year due to the impact of the pandemic.
The group’s departure Wednesday night recalls a much larger caravan of migrants that had formed two years before the mid-term elections in the United States and has a hot topic in the campaign, fueling anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Under pressure from the United States government last year, Mexico adopted a more competitive technique with migrants: it deployed its National Guard to intercept them on the roads and tried to prevent the formation of large caravans noted in recent years.
Central American migrants have begun to form giant teams in recent years, seeking security in number and, in some cases, avoiding the charges of smugglers; attracted great attention, but accounted for only a fraction of the daily migration flow to the US. U. S. border.