MEXICO CITY (AP) — A caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching america dissolved Sunday after crossing the border into Guatemala, the Guatemalan Migration Institute reported.
Authorities had been monitoring three border crossings and mentioned a part of the caravan superior a number of kilometers (miles) into Guatemalan territory, earlier than the migrants have been stopped by migration officers who processed them, prioritizing the minors.
Based on the immigration company, no power was used and dialogue prevailed. Those that had paperwork have been capable of proceed on as Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador have free transit amongst them. Those that didn’t have the required paperwork returned to Honduras.
Authorities didn’t supply figures on what number of stayed or returned.
The caravan left Saturday, strolling from the bus terminal of San Pedro Sula in Honduras. It was the primary such group to go away Honduras since January 2022.
The overwhelming majority of migrants cross Central America and Mexico in small teams, utilizing all forms of transportation and smuggling networks. Only a few form caravans.
The most important ones left San Pedro Sula in late 2018 and 2019 and lots of made it so far as the southern U.S. border. However after the pandemic, the U.S. put strain on Mexico and Central American governments to extend their efforts to cease migrants headed north.
Since then, the caravans have been stopped first in southern Mexico and later in Guatemalan territory.
In 2023, there have been document numbers of migrants all around the hemisphere. Arrests for unlawful crossings into the U.S. from Mexico intensified by the tip of yr, when U.S. authorities registered as much as 10,000 unlawful crossings over a number of days in December. The quantity dropped to 2,500 within the first days of January.
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