As the world marvels at the “wall” on Capitol Hill in Washington and the 20,000 troops with guns, the world may not have noticed that between 7,000 and 8,000 illegal Honduran immigrants have crossed the border into Guatemala since January 15, ready to continue their journey to the United States. The influx of illegal immigrants from South America to the United States comes as Biden has claimed to end Trump‘s Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), which controls illegal immigration, on his “first day” in office.
A spokesman for Guatemala’s official migration agency said Saturday (Jan. 16) that an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 illegal Honduran migrants have crossed into Guatemala in three groups since Friday and Saturday, breaking through about 2,000 police and soldiers at the Guatemalan border and preparing to leave for the United States.
The Guatemalan president called on Honduran authorities to “control the mass exit of its residents” because most of them did not present the negative test certificates required by Guatemala for the virus.
The same report added: Mexico continues to train thousands of National Guard members and immigration agents at its southern border in a show of force aimed at stopping the caravan from entering the country.
The situation is not surprising, as officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Customs and Border Protection) have long warned that as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to loosen controls at the border, the number of migrants arriving at the U.S. border since December 2020 has surged by 80 percent to a whopping 74,000.
Mark Morgan, chief operating officer and acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, already cautioned on Jan. 5 that he had seen the negative effects of the proposed Biden policy changes, and that “criminal groups and human traffickers are spreading the word that we’re going to open the border,” Breitbart reported. idea.” He argued that Biden’s campaign promises were “not an immigration strategy, but an open borders strategy” and that “immigrants know, and more importantly, traffickers know… I was asked, ‘What do you think is going to happen,’ and I said It’s already happening now.”
Regarding the up to 74,000 illegal immigrants who have arrived at the U.S. border, Morgan said the number is “arguably crisis level,” “but the reason it doesn’t feel like a crisis is because we had President Trump’s mandate, regulations and policies to deal with that number at the time. If Biden cancels Trump’s border reforms as he campaigned on, the numbers will become a border crisis. He explained, “You take away that (ability to respond), then 2,500 (arrivals) a day, overnight, will become a crisis, and that’s what we’re worried about.”
Morgan said the arrivals include the spouses and children of migrants from Central America. “We’re now seeing people from the Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras), mainly still single adults, but we’re also seeing families and unaccompanied foreign children. So now we’re back to a 50-50 split, about 50 percent Mexican and 50 percent from other countries.”
The above message is still from Jan. 5, 10 days ago, when Morgan said: his deputies are communicating with Biden’s deputies, and they want the Biden administration to really listen to the experts, to the facts, and then make adjustments to protect America. The Biden team appears to have taken the advice. “They’ve taken back what they promised to do before. Mr. Biden himself said in a recent (response) to a set of questions that he would not do what he promised to do (on) ‘day one’ of his inauguration because he knew it would create a crisis. But that message is likely not being heard or really believed by people in the South American country.
It is well known that President Donald Trump has made combating illegal immigration one of his priorities during the past four years in office, leading the United States to finalize agreements with countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to restrict illegal immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States. Several previous illegal immigrant caravan operations have been stopped by Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. For his part, Biden argues that Trump’s policies are inhumane, vowing that he will overturn Trump’s immigration policies when he takes office, only to change his story later. The Trump administration, for its part, argues that policies such as the MPP have effectively eliminated the pull factor that attracts illegal immigrants to the U.S. border, and warns that reversing the policy would lead to a surge in illegal immigration at the border.
January 17, 2021 A large number of illegal Honduran migrants attempt to break through Guatemalan border agents and break into Guatemala
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