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Several thousand migrants, mainly from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras, are trekking north by foot toward Mexico City and, presumably, the U.S-Mexico border.
Nearly 500 law enforcement officers attempted to block their path Saturday at a highway checkpoint in southern Mexico, but most migrants—carrying American flags or signs with President Joe Biden’s name—broke past.
They had been waiting for months in brutal heat near the Guatemala-Mexico border for asylum papers that would allow them to travel through Mexico. (Mexico requires migrants seeking humanitarian visas or asylum to wait at the border while their cases are processed.) But frustrated by delays, they pushed through the police force and continued on a more than 1,000-mile journey toward Texas.
Former President Donald Trump released an email statement Sunday, calling on the Biden administration to finish construction of the border wall and offering additional analysis. --->READ MORE HERE
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Texas is bracing for a surge of approximately 3,000 migrants - including some 250 children - making the northward trek from Central America through Mexico. While most of the group is from Central America, they are joined by South Americans, Africans and Haitians.
The latest caravan, known as "Madre Caravana" or "Mother Caravan," is stopped along a highway in Huehuetán, a city in the southern state of Chiapas as the weather topped 89 degrees, according to the Daily Mail.
In response, a unit of 1,000 state police officers and Texas Rangers have been deployed to areas along the state's 1,241 miles of border with Mexico, and is preparing to repel the influx of migrants. Last month, Texas state law enforcement agents were able to prevent approximately 15,000 mostly-Haitian migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border.
"The Texas Department of Public Safety [DPS] is committed to securing our southern border under the direction of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and has deployed around one-thousand Troopers, Special Agents and Texas Rangers as part of Operation Lone Star (OLS)," as spokesperson told the Daily Mail on Monday. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
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