Reports of immigrant caravans already on the move followed what was practically an invite from former vice president Joe Biden. In order to spite President Trump’s efforts at the border, Biden announced his plan to legalize illegal immigrants already in the United States. His announcement was an invite to the masses- and they were watching.
Reporters spotted a swarm forming in Honduras. Though this group isn’t as large as some of the ones we have seen in the recent past, it is likely just the first of many.
Bertha Méndez, a 25-year-old who told the Wall Street Journal that she “lost everything” in the hurricanes, said she expects the caravane U.S. before Inauguration Day.
“We have asked God to help us and we believe that the new U.S. government will let us in,” she told the newspaper. “I travel with eight people and we all think that this is a good opportunity, because it is the only thing we have left after having lost everything in the floods.”
Bernarda López, a 48-year-old mother of eight, told the Journal, “We lost what little we had. There is nothing more to do. We are going to walk, or whatever, until we get there.”
Overall, border crossing have declined in 2020, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic and Trump’s immigration policies. However, that has begun to change in recent months, the New York Times reported:
“After a steep decline in border crossings through much of this year, interceptions of unauthorized migrants along the Arizona-Mexico border are climbing again: Detentions in October were up 30 percent over September, and the figure in coming months is expected be even higher, despite the biting cold in the Sonoran desert.
The rising numbers suggest that the Trump administration’s expulsion policy, an emergency measure to halt the spread of the coronavirus, is encouraging migrants to make repeated tries, in ever-more-remote locations, until they succeed in crossing the frontier undetected.”
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