New Migrant Caravan from Central America to US Has Grown to 12,000 People


A new migrant caravan from Central America reportedly has grown to 12,000 people. The caravan is headed toward Mexico’s southern border, and Mexican officials are processing ‘humanitarian’ visas to allow the migrants to travel legally. Although the Mexican government is inviting members of the caravan to remain in Mexico to work, there is little doubt that the motivation for most migrants is to reach the welfare paradise called the United States. -GEG

The ranks of a new Central American migrant caravan reportedly grew
in size to more than 12,000 as of Friday. The caravan is now heading to
Mexico’s southern border.

Mexican immigration officials in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, which
borders Guatemala, are establishing procedures to expedite the process
in which to approve one-year humanitarian visas for members of the
Central American migrant caravan who are arriving daily. The one-year
humanitarian visas, promised by Mexico’s new President Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, is a newly adopted policy which allows migrants to
legally travel and work during their stay in Mexico.

The new policy of handing out humanitarian visas began on January 17
in response to the new caravan of primarily Honduran migrants who left
their home country and headed towards the Mexican border on January 15.
Officials originally estimated the caravan’s size at about 2,000. Mexico
now claims the caravan’s population swelled to over 12,000 migrants, according to local media and Breitbart Texas sources.

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