Guatemala said Friday that it would own and return the caravan of some 2,000 Hondurans who crossed its borders on Thursday on their adventure to the United States, according to the Associated Press.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei would have said in a speech to the country that migrants pose a health risk due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The order given to detain everyone who entered illegally and send them back to their country’s border,” Giammattei said. “We will not allow any foreigner who has used illegal means to enter the country to think that they have the right to come, infect us and endanger us. “
The AP reported that Giammattei had suspended certain constitutional rights in the provinces through which the caravan would have to do so in order for the government to stop them.
News of the caravan was first announced on Thursday, and the AP reported that the Guatemalan government had planned to search migrants when they crossed the border and offer assistance to bring them back to Honduras. documents that appear to have tested negative for COVID-19.
However, the organization registered and instead pushed the authorities, and the Palestinian Authority reported that little effort had been made to arrest them.
The AP reported that on Friday, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador questioned the caravan’s schedule and warned that it could have been arranged for someone to have advantages in the U. S. presidential election.
“I think it has to do with elections in America,” Obrador said. “I don’t have all the elements, yet there are indications that it was formed for that purpose. I don’t know who it benefits from, but we’re not here. “naive. “
U. S. Customs and Border Protection officials have been able to find a problem. But it’s not the first time They did not respond when they were contacted through The Hill on Thursday.
Shortly before the mid-term elections in 2018, reports of migrant caravans circulated to the United States, one of which had some 7,000 people.
Until now, recent migration flows from Central America had slowed largely amid the pandemic. According to AP, maximum shelters along primary migration routes have been closed to newcomers to prevent the spread of the virus.
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