The U.S. government is now tracking a small group of immigrants from the Honduran migrant caravan who crossed into southern Mexico on Thursday night, a border President Donald Trump made clear he did not want the migrants to cross in order to prevent them from arriving at the U.S. southern border.
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The group of migrants, gathered in the town’s central park, were preparing to make a decision by early afternoon about how to enter Mexico. Among the options: cross Tecun Uman’s border bridge by foot and face detention or try to make it across the Succhiate River undetected.
“If migration and the federal police do not allow us access, we will do the impossible to cross into Mexico,” one of the migrants shouted to the others.
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A separate group of roughly 500 migrants are expected to join the others later Friday. Another large caravan of roughly 1,000 Hondurans recently crossed into El Salvador as they make their way north.
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Trump went on to declare that a number of the migrants are criminals. “A fairly big percentage of those people are criminals, and they wanna come into our country, and they’re criminals, and it’s not happening under my watch,” he said.
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