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Crowds entered Guatemala on Friday pushing through police checkpoints, writes The Wall Street Journal.
According to various international media, it was mainly young men who managed to enter the country. At the same time, the human race is also made up of women and young children. The reason people left their home country of Honduras is said to be an increase in unemployment due to the corona pandemic.
Hundreds of migrants were bussed back to the Honduran border by Guatemalan authorities on Saturday. But there is information that some continue their journey north, reports AP.
Army deployment
On Saturday, the Mexican government announced that it had deployed 26,000 troops to the border to prevent the caravan from entering the country. Authorities have said they will arrest anyone who crosses the border illegally.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, has expressed his suspicions that the caravan has to do with the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, but without clarifying exactly what he refers to.
– It is strange that the caravan goes so close to the elections in the United States. It has to do with choice. I don’t have all the information on the table, but I think there are indications that it was arranged for a purpose, says the president.
It’s not the first time
This is not the first time that a large group of people have traveled through Central America to the United States. Since 2018, when the first notable human trains left El Salvador, thousands of people have made the same journey.
The events have had a great impact on the political debate on migration in the United States and have caused the government of the country to be criticized for the way migrants have been treated at the border.
