Trump: 'Full efforts' being made to stop migrant caravan

Source: Washington Examiner | October 21, 2018 | Sean Higgins

President Trump said Sunday his administration is focused on preventing a caravan of at least 5,000 Central American migrants heading north in Mexico from reaching the US border. He vowed that if the migrants have not been registered as asylum seekers, they would be turned away at the border.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement Sunday that the U.S. was “closely monitoring the situation” and that her agency would work with its partners in the region to “investigate and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law” anyone seeking to “encourage and profit from irregular migration.” The statement noted that transnational criminal groups often prey on such migrants.

Thousands of Central American migrants, primarily from Honduras and Guatemala, pressed north through Mexico toward the U.S. border on Sunday. Mexican President Enrique Nieto has said throughout the past week that his country would seek to register the migrants and process requests for asylum. Mexico’s Interior Department said it had received just 640 refugee requests by Hondurans in the caravan.

Many of the migrants have said they gave up trying to use the legal process to enter Mexico because the process was too slow. A big group of migrants who grew impatient burst through a Guatemalan border fence and worked their way around a border gate and crossed into Mexico on Friday. The caravan has been shadowed by Mexican authorities, but have so far not been stopped.

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  • Consistent October 21, 2018 at 5:32 pm #26127

    EVERYDAY October 22, 2018 at 4:51 pm #26137

    Yeah, let’s see what those “efforts” are. This is going to be a defining moment for Trump. He promised his fans that if elected, he was going to stop illegal immigration. Seems to me in this case he is already saying he will stop those who have not applied for asylum — indicating to me that he will let at least some in if they formally apply for asylum. That tells me his tough guy stance during the presidential campaign was once again an act. A real leader will not let any of these alleged “migrants” in. We are being invaded by people who wish to live in this country illegally and drain our resources, They should be treated as any other invader would — turned back by force.

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