Tuesday, January 22, 2019

New migrant caravan leaves Honduras for journey to US border by Gunner F.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/new-migrant-caravan-leaves-honduras-for-journey-to-us-border

https://www.foxnews.com/world/migrant-caravan-freely-crosses-mexican-border-after-gates-were-left-open-authorities-avoided-confrontation


Last week, a new caravan of migrants left their lovely country of Honduras to come to the United States border. When leaving Honduras, there were about 500 migrants in the group.  In late 2018 we had a similar issue with a migrant caravan trying to get into the United States. They caused a lot of havoc at the border, clashing with our border patrol agents. This caused a lot of drama in our media and within the government. As you can see, things did not work out very well for that caravan. In an interview with President Donald Trump about this new caravan, he said “we are trying to break it up.” On Friday, the migrants entered Mexico to continue their journey to the border. Upon their entrance into Mexico, law enforcement did not interfere with the migrants in order to avoid violence like in 2018 with the last caravan. Depending on what point of entry they choose into the United States, they can have anywhere from 1,000 ot 2,000 miles to go. Some of the migrants even have their children with them. That is a long journey for a young, innocent child. Donald Trump also said in an interview about the caravan "drone isn't going to stop it and a sensor isn’t going to stop it, but you know what’s going to stop it in its tracks? A nice, powerful wall." This new caravan could affect our nation’s immigration policies. 


Do you think that we should let this new group in? Could this caravan possibly be a negotiation topic with the government shutdown? Do you think that a wall would be the best solution to this problem?

1 comment:

  1. I don’t think they should be let in unless they go about it the right way and go through the right channels instead of storming our border.
    I think this could definitely be a negotiation topic because this is a reoccurring problem.
    I think a wall would be the best option because it would help cut down the amount of illegal immigrants.

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