Migrants in the newest caravan departing from southern Mexico to the United States recently rejected humanitarian visas from the Mexican government. These actions reveal that many members of the group are not bona fide asylum seekers and asylum country…
Migrant Caravan
Guatemalan and Mexican authorities blocking northbound caravans (for now) appear to be taking illegal immigration more seriously than incoming President Joe Biden. In Guatemala, security forces broke up a group of 4,000 mostly Honduran migrants on Mond…
In what might be a glimpse of things to come, a new migrant caravan has formed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro de Sula and, according to its participants, is bound for the U.S. Migrants are claiming that they are fleeing the destruction unle…
More than 3,000 economic migrants started out from Honduras last week hoping to reach the U.S. border where they planned to ask for political asylum. Unlike earlier caravans, where many of the migrants made it to the U.S. border, this latest attempt at…
On October 1, 3,000 Honduran migrants forced their way past police and soldiers as they crossed into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. southern border, but they didn’t make it far. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei ordered the migrants to be d…
A downward trend in apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border appears to be ending. Like the predictable summer monsoons, a seasonal rise in northbound migration is on the horizon. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports that apprehensions edged…
Americans feeling relieved by reported declines in illegal crossings at the southern border shouldn’t get too comfortable. Mexico’s interior chief confirms that a new U.S.-bound caravan is getting under way in Honduras. Scheduled to depart&#…