The Mexican government said it will disband the caravan of more than 1,000 Central American (Honduras) migrants that has been traveling north to the U.S. border for the past nine days after President Trump threatened to use ongoing NAFTA negotiations to punish Mexico for what he said was inaction on illegal immigration.
We have a foreign nation helping to advance an invasion of our country by using citizens of yet another foreign nation. It is clearly an act of war and goes back to the origins of the word "infantry" - those "without voices" who can be pushed out to the front of the battle. That is exactly what Mexico is doing in cooperation with other Central American countries.
Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration (INAMI) will grant humanitarian visas to certain vulnerable individuals within the group, such as as pregnant womenand people with disabilities. The remaining migrants will have to petition the Mexican government to stay, or they will be ordered to return to their home countries.
The caravan, which numbers about 1,200, is currently in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Organized by the group Pueblos Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders), it has been trekking north through Mexico with the aim of drawing attention to “migrant rights” and, potentially, applying for asylum in the U.S.
The Mexican foreign ministry said 400 of the migrants in the caravan entered Mexico illegally and had already been repatriated. The remaining migrants will be subjected to an “administrative migration procedure,” the government said, though it was unclear how many marchers would be allowed to continue their journey to the U.S. border.
The moves follow intense criticism from President Donald Trump, who publicly vented his frustration with the Mexican government for allowing the caravan to travel unimpeded. In a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump threatened to use ongoing NAFTA negotiations to punish Mexico for what he said was inaction on illegal immigration.
“Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S.,” he tweeted Sunday. “They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!”
Trump went on to blast “weak” U.S. immigration laws, saying they were inviting illegal immigration across the southwest border.
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