{"id":22385,"date":"2020-01-14T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22385"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:56:04","slug":"migrant-caravan-honduras-border-security-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/14\/migrant-caravan-honduras-border-security-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Caravan Season Warming Up in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Americans feeling relieved by reported declines<\/a> in illegal crossings at the southern border shouldn\u2019t get too comfortable. Mexico’s interior chief confirms that a new U.S.-bound caravan is getting under way in Honduras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheduled to depart San Pedro\nSula this month, the caravan will carry an unknown number of Central American\nmigrants. If it\u2019s anything like the last few that started in Honduras, expect a\nlarge contingent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexican authorities are talking a good game, for now. Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero<\/a> said her government is \u201cvery open to being a country of asylum and to migrants who want to stay and work, to obtain resident status. \u2026 Those who only want to use Mexico as a transit country are not welcome.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet it\u2019s unclear how\nseriously Mexico intends to screen caravans and monitor their movements. Also\nunknown is whether that country has the political will or operational\nwherewithal to make good on its pledge to \u201cpromptly return\u201d transients who keep\nheading north. Last year\u2019s caravans barged through Mexico with only sporadic\nand token resistance from overwhelmed law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking a plethora of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and migrant-enabling religious organizations in Mexico and the U.S., \u201cOpen Borders, Inc.\u201d author Michelle Malkin<\/a> concluded that such groups \u201cact like Sherpas [guides].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s\nbasically a bed & breakfast network,\u201d Malkin mused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On cue, the bishop of Tapachula, Mexico<\/a>, announced earlier this month that the Catholic Church was prepared to aid members of the new migrant caravan. The bishop\u2019s border town<\/a> was swamped by a massive caravan that entered Mexico via Guatemala in the fall of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\ninfrastructure in place, Mexico City and Washington can expect a renewed flow\nof northbound migrants posing as asylum seekers or refugees. The brief winter pause\nappears to be thawing as the next migratory season approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans feeling relieved by reported declines in illegal crossings at the southern border shouldn\u2019t get too comfortable. Mexico’s interior chief confirms that a new U.S.-bound caravan is getting under way in Honduras. Scheduled to depart San Pedro Sula this month, the caravan will carry an unknown number of Central American migrants. If it\u2019s anything like the last<\/p>\n

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