Migrants At US Border Ask Trump To Have Heart
Faizan Hashmi Published April 26, 2018 | 10:22 PM
Olga Caballero and her four children set out from southern Mexico a month ago as part of a US-bound caravan that infuriated President Donald Trump.
Tijuana, Mexico, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Apr, 2018 ) :Olga Caballero and her four children set out from southern Mexico a month ago as part of a US-bound caravan that infuriated President Donald Trump.
Now, having reached the border with the wealthy United States on Tuesday, this Honduran woman is asking the anti-immigrant Trump to show compassion and remember that he, too, is a father. Caballero and her children -- whose ages range from two to 16 -- spent the first night in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, as part of a caravan of 120 migrants including 50 minors who arrived on two buses.
Since the so-called Viacrucis Migrante set out on March 25, or Palm Sunday, these poor and hearty Central Americans have crossed Mexico on foot, on trains and in buses. "My biggest fear was that I would fall asleep and one of my kids would fall from the train.
Everybody was crowded up against a railing, and I sat up all night watching them," said Caballero, who is 35. The caravan is a tradition that dates back to 2010 and is designed to draw attention to the plight of destitute Central Americans crossing through Mexico to try to reach the US and the promise of a better life.
This time, it set out with 1,000 people, but they have since dispersed, with some now traveling on their own. Irineo Mujica of the migrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) that organized the procession said that some 600 of the original thousand remain grouped together.
About half have begun filing papers to stay in Mexico and the other 300 plan to request asylum in the United States. Media coverage of the US-bound caravan triggered a flurry of furious tweets from Trump, who ordered thousands of National Guard troops to the US-Mexican border and called on Mexico to stop the migrants.
He also linked the issue of migration to the signing of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement. Late Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security warned the migrants against trying to enter the country illegally or filing false immigration claims, saying they will be arrested if they do.
Mexico rejected pressure from Trump. It gave the migrants a one-month transit pass to decide if they want to seek refuge in Mexico, go back home or keep trudging toward the United States.
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