Caravan migrants are
choosing to go back to Honduras – here’s why they’re doing it, 11/27/18, The
Blaze.
According
to an MSNBC reporter from Tijuana in Mexico, some of the caravan migrants are
choosing to go back to their home countries – and they say it is because they were
misled about how easy it is to enter. “They have realized that it is very difficult”
MSNBC’s
Gadi Schwartz reported from the migrant encampment where the situation
had turned violent on
Sunday as migrants tried
to force their way into the United States.
“Many
of these men tell us that they heard in Honduras that it would be easy to cross
into the United States,” he reported.
“Some
of them told us that they had heard that there were programs, work programs,”
he continued, “that they would be eligible for and so now that they’re here in Tijuana,
and they have realized that it is very difficult to get into the United States,
especially after what happened on Sunday, some of them are deciding to turn
back.”
“In
fact,” he continued as the camera swung to a tent, “this is a tent that’s been set
up by a bunch of different governmental agencies here in Mexico, but this is
where people come if they want to go back to Honduras or Guatemala, or El
Salvador.”
“These
are people who have decided that it is time to go back and that they don’t have
the opportunities that they wanted here,” he concluded.
Schwartz
also reported that Mexico is extending humanitarian visas to the migrants and
setting up jobs for them.
The San Diego Union Tribune
interviewed many
migrants who said that they could not afford to continue to stay in Tijuana
further, and others said it was not safe in the encampment for them.
Border officials
repel migrants with tear gas
- On Sunday some migrants attempted to storm into the U.S. by exploiting a
weakness in one of the fences, but they were driven back by volleys of tear gas from border authorities. There
were reports that some migrants threw rocks at law enforcement officials.
Despite
the decision from some to move back to their home countries, Schwartz reports
that relatively few have done so – only about 81 on Monday.
On Monday, Schwartz reported that a majority of the migrants
were young males who were not seeking asylum, which many saw as a rebuke to narratives advocated
by some on the left and in the media about the migrants.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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