EL FLORIDO, Guatemala • A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces.
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January 21, 2021
VADO HONDO, GUATEMALA (AFP) – In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States (US), dashing their hopes of a better life there.
On Monday, security forces broke up the caravan of some 4,000 migrants who had massed in the Guatemalan town of Vada Hondo on the first leg of their journey of thousands of kilometres through Central America on foot.
They were being returned on Tuesday to the El Florido border crossing where most of the group had entered Guatemala last Friday.
According to Guatemalan migration authorities, some 3,500 people have already been returned to Honduras, several hundred children among them.
(RNS) Honduran migrants encountered tear gas and were struck with sticks as they pushed through lines of Guatemalan soldiers in their trek to reach Mexico and seek asylum in the United States.
They departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, early Friday (Jan. 15), but by Tuesday the large caravan had largely dissolved after a dayslong standoff with Guatemalan security forces. Small groups made it toward the Mexican border, while others agreed to be sent back to Honduras on buses arranged by Guatemalan officials.
Faith groups and religious leaders found the violence at the border disturbing and are urging newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden, who has promised to take a different approach to immigration, to steer away from hard-line policies that would make it difficult for migrants to seek asylum. They also urged Guatemalan and Honduran leaders to treat the thousands of Hondurans fleeing their country as a refugee crisis.