Posted on 10/04/2020 6:19:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
Hundreds of U.S.-bound Honduran migrants who had entered Guatemala this week without registering were being bused back to their country’s border Saturday by authorities who met them with a large roadblock.
By 5 a.m. Saturday, none of 1,000 or so migrants who had been stalled by police and soldiers remained along a stretch of rural highway remained. Police said that hours earlier, migrants had boarded buses and army trucks to be taken back to the border.
Small groups of fewer than 10 migrants each could still be found walking along the highway before the roadblock Saturday morning.
Olvin Suazo, 21, was walking with three friends, all from Santa Barbara, Honduras.
“We’re going to continue,” he said. “We were resting and the bigger group continued. We didn’t know what happened to them.”
The four, all in their early 20s, are farmworkers. They heard about the caravan that formed earlier this week in San Pedro Sula via WhatsApp and Facebook.
On Friday, over 100 Guatemalan soldiers and police blocked the migrants, who became increasingly frustrated with the lack of food and forward movement after walking from Honduras earlier this week...
Seldom since 2018 had the prospects for a migrant caravan been so discouraging. Guatemala’s president saw them as a contagion risk amid the coronavirus pandemic and vowed to deport them. Mexico’s president speculated that the caravan was a plot to influence the U.S. elections. And newly formed Tropical Storm Gamma threatened to dump torrential rain on their planned route through southern Mexico.
On Thursday, Guatemalan President Giammattei vowed to return the migrants to Honduras, citing efforts to contain the pandemic...
This week, Mexico has been warning that it will enforce its immigration laws and even prosecute people who knowingly put public health at risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at borderreport.com ...
And this at a time when the Democrats want to defund the police. The governments of these parasites want only to export their poor as a kind of human capital so as to remit money back to their home countries.
It is like a ship’s crew decided to mutiny and burn the ship down while hundreds of miles from any land.
Yup. ‘’Mutiny On The Bounty’’ comes to mind. Boy, Ol’ Fletcher Christian sure wasn’t the brightest star in the heavens.
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