The caravan of Honduran migrants has turned around Friday — a day after reaching the Mexico-Guatemala border, according to a report.
Some 4,000 migrants fled their lives of poverty and violence in the Central American country with the hope of making it to the United States — despite repeated warnings from President Trump that he would deploy the US military to stop them.
The caravan arrived at the border in southern Mexico on Thursday but turned around Friday, the Associated Press reported.
The caravan arrived at the border in southern Mexico on Thursday but turned around Friday just before 11 a.m. local time about two blocks from the border crossing, saying they would wait another hour or so, the Associated Press reported.
The disorganized crowd chanted, “one way or another, we will pass” and “we are not smugglers, we are immigrants,” as they moved closer toward the border bridge.
The bridge is being heavily guarded by hundreds of Mexican federal police and Guatemalan police in riot gear, as well as tall metal gates.
Mexico’s ambassador to Guatemala said his country would enforce a policy of “metered entry” when it came to letting the migrants trickle in.
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