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    New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms as hundreds wait at US border

    New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms as hundreds wait at US border

    World / 18 November 2018, 9:14pm / Nelson Renteria


    San Salvador - At least 150 Salvadorans set off on Sunday from their impoverished Central American country in a US-bound caravan, ignoring their likely rejection at the US-Mexico border where a larger caravan of mostly Hondurans has been stalled for days.


    Guarded by police officers, the men, women and children of the gathering caravan marched through San Salvador's streets to Guatemala-bound buses, loaded with heavy backpacks, water and the knowledge of an arduous 2,700-mile (4,300-km) trek ahead to the US border.


    The group from El Salvador was at least the fourth caravan to set off since a first, large-scale mobilization in neighbouring Honduras, which departed on October 13 from the crime-wracked northern city of San Pedro Sula.


    That caravan quickly grew to thousands as it moved north on daily 30-mile (50-km) treks. Many of its members were still winding their way on Sunday through Mexico toward the US border, where hundreds of early arrivals have been waiting since last week to cross.


    Ahead of the November 6 midterm US congressional elections, President Donald Trump denounced the large caravan as an "invasion" that threatened American national security and sent thousands of active-duty U.S. troops to the border with Mexico. Trump has not publicly focused on the caravan since the election.

    Inspired by the public spotlight on the larger caravan, Salvadorans organized themselves on social networks and the WhatsApp application to launch the latest effort.


    Among them was Manuel Umana, a 53-year-old farmer from the town of San Pedro Masahuat, who said he decided to join Sunday's caravan to escape MS-13, a brutal criminal gang that controls large parts of El Salvador and neighbouring Honduras.


    "We are already threatened by the gangs where we live," said Umana, pointing to scars on his face he said gang members had inflicted five years ago. "We no longer can live with these people."


    His motives echoed dozens of migrants in the earlier caravans who told Reuters they were abandoning their homes to escape a toxic mixture of violence, corruption and economic insecurity.


    El Salvador and Honduras compete for the highest homicide rates in the world, according to official figures. Both countries rank among the poorest in the Americas.


    "It is very dangerous but we have no other alternative. We are determined to do what we need to do," said Umana, before leaving with the rest of the caravan from the Salvadoran capital's central Plaza Salvador del Mundo.


    Far to the north on Sunday, in the city of Tijuana that abuts California, hundreds of people from the larger caravan braced for planned protests from local Mexicans both in favour and against them.


    Just over the northern border, nearly 6 000 US troops in recent days have stretched barbed wire to dissuade illegal entries.


    US immigration authorities, meanwhile, barred passage to dozens of the migrants who in recent days formed orderly lines to enter through the San Ysidro Port of Entry connecting Mexico to San Diego.




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    Mexico had better stop them at THEIR southern border.

    What YOU need to do is go home and go cry on your President's doorstep!
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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    This is exactly why Trump needs to get tough at the border.....

    To send a clear message, YOU ARE NOT GETTING INTO THE U.S.A.!


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