Manuel Ocaño | La Prensa San Diego
Close to 1,500 migrants have departed from Honduras in two separate groups headed for the U.S.-Mexico border – tentatively Tijuana – with the intention of petitioning for asylum in the U.S.
The number is but a fraction of the 15,000 migrants that a Tijuana activist had assured would leave San Pedro Sula in the early hours of Jan. 15.
Because of the news of the potentially 15,000-member caravan, President Trump said during his visit to the Texas border that “a new, even larger is being formed in Honduras, larger than anything we’ve seen.”
However, only about 600 people left from San Pedro Sula and 900 more from other regions to meet up at the border with Guatemala and from there head north through Mexico towards the U.S. southern border, according to reporting received from Honduras through messaging app WhatsApp.
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Harris said the administration plans to create greater efficiencies to streamline the naturalization process, including decreasing the amount of time required to acquire U.S. citizenship from 13 years to eight years, offering certain members of the Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programs automatic green cards and adding immigration judges to help eliminate backlogs on court hearings. We believe it is smarter and a more humane way of approaching immigration for immigrants, Harris said.
The full plan will be sent to Congress on President-elect Joe Biden s first day in office.
Biden, who will be inaugurated tomorrow (January 20), is expected to introduce a sweeping immigration bill from Day One of his presidency that will roll back a number of the Trump s policies.
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