Central American migrants cross the Suchiate River by foot from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, to Mexico, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. CIUDAD HIDALGO, MEXICO -- Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man's land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico after running up against lines of Mexican National Guard troops deployed to keep them from moving en masse into the country and on north toward the U.S.
"We are in no-man's land," said Alan Mejia, whose 2-year-old son was cradled in his arms clad only in a diaper as his wife, Ingrid Vanesa Portillo, and their other son, 12, gazed at the riverbanks. Mejia joined in five previous migrant caravans but never made it farther than the Mexican border city of Tijuana.
Throngs waded across the Suchiate into southern Mexico on Monday hoping to test U.S. President Donald Trump's strategy to keep Central American migrants away from the U.S. border. The push also challenged Mexico's ramped-up immigration policing that began last year in response to threats of economic tariffs from Trump, a change that effectively snuffed out the last caravan in April.
"We never thought they would receive us like that," said Melisa Avila, who travelled from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa with her 12-year-old son and was resigning herself to the prospect of spending the night outdoors. "They treated us like dogs." As feared, children suffered in the chaos. On the Mexican bank an unconscious 14-year-old girl was carried away for medical attention Monday.
"Have you seen this little girl?" Avila asked other migrants. "Blue pants, beige shirt and little pink shoes."
About time Mexico defended it's border and didn't allow these illegals to just walk into their country. A civilization has laws. Insanity from the left creates chaos .Millions wait their turn worldwide, pay monies, have skills to help the nation. These are just freeloaders.
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