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Honduran migrants leave Guatemala City at sunrise Thursday as they make their way north toward the U.S. Many
of the more than 2,000 Hondurans in a migrant caravan, trying to wind its way to the United States, left sponta-
neously with little more than the clothes on their backs and what they could quickly throw into backpacks.
Pressure turns to Mexico as migrant
caravan makes way toward border
By SONIA PEREZ D.,
PETER ORSI AND MARK
STEVENSON
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY —
As some 3,000 Hondurans
made their way through
Guatemala, attention turned
to Mexico, after U.S. Pres-
ident Donald Trump threat-
ened Thursday to close
the U.S.-Mexico border if
authorities there fail to stop
them — a nearly unthink-
able move that would dis-
rupt hundreds of thousands
of legal freight, vehicle and
pedestrian crossings each
day.
With less than three
weeks before the Nov. 6
midterm elections, Trump
seized on the migrant cara-
van to make border security
a political issue and ener-
gize his Republican base.
“I must, in the stron-
gest of terms, ask Mexico
to stop this onslaught —
and if unable to do so I will
call up the U.S. Military
and CLOSE OUR SOUTH-
ERN BORDER!” Trump
tweeted, adding that he
blamed Democrats for what
he called “weak laws!”
The threat followed
another one earlier this
week to cut off aid to Cen-
tral American countries
if the migrants weren’t
stopped. Trump made a sim-
ilar vow over another large
migrant caravan in April,
but didn’t follow through
and it largely petered out in
Mexico.
On Thursday, Mexico
dispatched additional police
to its southern border after
the Casa del Migrante shel-
ter on the Guatemalan side
of the border reported that
hundreds of Hondurans had
already arrived there.
Apparently pleased with
that response, in the eve-
ning Trump retweeted a
BuzzFeed journalist’s tweet
of a video clip showing the
police deployment, adding
his own comment: “Thank
you Mexico, we look for-
ward to working with you!”
Mexican officials said
the Hondurans would not be
allowed to enter as a group
and would either have to
show a passport and visa —
something few have — or
apply individually for ref-
ugee status, a process that
can mean waiting for up to
90 days for approval. They
also said migrants caught
without papers would be
deported.
Marcelo Ebrard, who is
set to become foreign rela-
tions secretary when Pres-
ident-elect Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador takes office
Dec. 1, said Trump’s tweets
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need to be understood in the
context of the upcoming
U.S. midterm elections.
“The electoral process
is very near, so he is mak-
ing a political calculation,”
Ebrard said in an interview
with Radio Centro.
Trump’s stance, he said,
was “what he has always
presented,” adding he saw
“nothing surprising in it.”
Current Foreign Rela-
tions Secretary Luis Videg-
aray was also sanguine and
viewed things through the
lens of U.S. politics.
“Nobody likes them
(Trump’s
comments).
There’s no reason to give
them greater transcendence
or importance,” Videga-
ray said from the United
Nations where he sought
the world body’s help pro-
cessing asylum requests
from the migrants. “What
is important to us is the
migrants, respect for human
rights, their due protec-
tion, particularly the most
vulnerable.”
Still, the idea that Mex-
ico could close its porous
southern border — or that
the United States would
choke off the lucrative trade
and other traffic between
the two nations — strained
the imagination.
“There would be huge
economic impacts for both
the United States and Mex-
ico ... but limited effect on
illegal immigration,” said
Andrew Selee, president
of the Migration Policy
Institute.
“The president certainly
can slow down crossing
at legal border crossings
where about a million peo-
ple cross each day. That
would really hurt legal tran-
sit between the two coun-
tries and manufacturing and
trade, which would affect
American workers,” Selee
said. “But it would have
much less impact on illegal
border crossings between
ports of entry.”
Stephanie Leutert, direc-
tor of the Mexico Secu-
rity Initiative at the Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin, said
she interpreted the tweet
to mean Trump could send
troops not to ports of entry
but elsewhere where the
illegal crossings take place.
“If that’s the case, I don’t
think Mexico should be too
worried because in a sense
... it’s the same kind of thing
U.S. administrations have
been doing for a long time,”
Leutert said.
Like Guatemala and
Honduras, Mexico is a
country of many migrants,
raising the question of
whether the political will
exists for a confrontation.
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