Mexico reinforces its southern border to confront migrants
Mexico reinforces its southern border to confront migrants
Mexico deployed hundreds of police, helicopters and boats along its porous southern border with Guatemala on Monday, in an attempt to stop the entry of approximately 1,500 mostly Honduran migrants, while the United States mobilized to reinforce its own southern border. .
Both developments illustrate the growing tension with the sudden and extraordinary exodus of Central American migrants heading north in caravans, highlighting a problem that President Trump has used to mobilize his base of supporters before the midterm elections next week. .
The deployment comes a day after some of those 1,500 migrants clashed with security forces on the border of Guatemala and Mexico, leaving a migrant dead after Mexico closed the crossing.
The events took place when another group of around 500 migrants from El Salvador entered Guatemala during the weekend en route to the US. UU Across Mexico, migrant workers and Mexican officials said. Meanwhile, another caravan with more than 4,000 mostly Honduran migrants continued their march north through southern Mexico to the United States. The once larger group ran out after some of its members returned or requested asylum in Mexico.
The Central American migrants of the second caravan en route to the United States clash with members of the Guatemalan Police in their attempt to cross the border from Guatemala to Mexico, in Tecún Uman, Guatemala, on Sunday.
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Each group of migrants seems to be loosely organized without leadership or links to each other. Most migrants seem to share only one common goal: to leave the economic difficulties and violence in their countries for a better life in the US. UU
Sunday's events occurred after Mexico closed the border crossing when migrants did not line up and sought asylum in an orderly fashion, Mexican officials say.
The videos published by Guatemalan and Mexican media on Sunday showed young men with their faces covered throwing stones and objects on the bridge while Mexican security forces kept the demonstrators at bay with tear gas.
Mexican authorities say the protesters had Molotov weapons and cocktails. The Guatemalan government said in a statement on Sunday that the children were used as "human shields" in the group that seeks to hasten Mexico's border fence.
"The members of this group are much more violent and aggressive" than previous migrants who now cross southern Mexico, said Gerardo Elías García, head of Mexico's migration agency.
On Monday, it was still unclear how the Honduran man died during the clashes on a bridge that divides the countries on the muddy Suchiate river. The victim, Henry Diaz, 26, left Honduras in hopes of getting a job in the United States after struggling to keep his 7-year-old son as a bus driver in Tegucigalpa, his aunt, Leticia Reyes, said.
"He said he would go back to Honduras only if he was dead," said Ms. Reyes as she cried.
Ms. Reyes said she raised Mr. Diaz, who also feared being the victim of ruthless gangs in Tegucigalpa that attack bus drivers in the city's neighborhoods. "I was afraid they would kill him," he added. Mr. Díaz had tried to migrate to the US UU Until arriving in Houston, where he was arrested and deported.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Honduras said that Mr. Diaz is the third Honduran to die in the caravan. Two others died when they fell from the vehicles. The ministry said on Monday it would seek to investigate Mr. Díaz's death and rejected "any form of criminalization and violence against people who migrate."
The Mexican authorities said that the federal police officers did not have weapons and kept the crowd at bay without resorting to violence. Authorities closed the border checkpoint on Sunday night and reinforced the thin white fence with razor wire, as the empty bridge was covered with stones and debris after the violent confrontation.
The videos published on Monday by the Guatemalan media showed hundreds of Honduran migrants crossing the Suchiate River into Mexico at a shallow point, many of them together in a long human chain.
A video showed a Mexican federal police helicopter approaching migrants in the river and on the Mexican coast in an attempt to force them to return. The head of the Mexican migration agency said that police officers were using megaphones to tell migrants that they would not return from Mexico if they entered the country in an orderly manner.
More than 160 of the migrants requested asylum since Sunday, Garcia added, and most of the remaining 1,500 are still in Guatemala. Nearly 2,000 Central American migrants have applied for asylum in the past two weeks, Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said Sunday. Mexico allows 200 asylum seekers per day. But many others rejected the option and continued their march northward.
Mr. Trump has sworn that none of the migrants will be allowed to enter the US. UU The military plans of the USA UU They will deploy 5,000 soldiers in the southwest border of the USA. UU Before the caravan, currently in the state of Oaxaca, about 900 miles from the border with Texas.
On Monday, the US authorities UU They closed a border checkpoint in El Paso, Texas, and deployed security agents with riot gear in a general dress rehearsal for the planned arrival of the caravan.
On the border of Guatemala with Mexico, local authorities declared an "orange alert" in Tecún Umán, prohibiting the sale of gasoline and other "flammable products" to Honduran immigrants. Residents were also urged to stay indoors to safeguard their lives and avoid confrontation with Honduran migrants.
Write to Santiago Pérez in santiago.perez@wsj.com, José de Córdoba in jose.decordoba@wsj.com and Ryan Dube in ryan.dube@dowjones.com
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