Hundreds of migrants set off from Honduras toward US border

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CLAUDIO ESCALÓN

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Some 600 migrants hoping to reach the United States set off in a caravan Saturday from the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.

Hundreds of young men, women and children, most from Nicaragua, Honduras and Cuba, had gathered overnight and early morning at the city’s central bus station.

Shortly after dawn, they set out walking toward the Guatemalan border in hopes that travelling in a group would be safer or cheaper than trying to hire smugglers or trying on their own. A smaller second group soon joined.

Fabricio Ordoñez, a young Honduran laborer, said he had joined the group in hopes of “giving a new life to my family.”



Honduran police check documents of migrants who are part of a caravan hoping to reach the United States, in Corinto, Honduras, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)


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[Chainfire]

1. We should be flattered

That so many people are willing to risk life, limb and wealth to try to come to our country to escape hate and fear. Maybe they don't know what they may be getting into. If I remember my history lessons, at one time, the Irish faced the same kind of welcome that these folks can expect. And which country was it that really drug their feet at offering Jewish people, attempting to flee the Third Reich, shelter from the storm of hate? It is who we are.

[paleotn]

3. A lot of people don't realize the danger.....

Things must be pretty damn horrible where their coming from if they're willing to take such risks to life and limb.

[cstanleytech]

13. Aye, if they are running to our country despite the Republicans in it imagine just how

much worse whatever they are running from has to be.

[TheRealNorth]

2. Well, the Cubans in that group will get a free pass....

Everyone else is fucked.

[paleotn]

4. Let them in. We need them.

[GB_RN]

5. I Can Hear The Reichwing Talking Points Now...

"They're bringing COVID, rapists, criminals and drugs...and I'm sure some of them are good people." 🙄

[Yandex]

6. I wonder who's financing this? n/t

[Hieronymus Phact]

7. let me guess

They'll arrive just in time for the election season and the numbers will have grown by thousands by then.
Just a guess.

[EndlessWire]

8. Yeah

That's what I think, too. It may be real to some, but it is staged by someone for effect. SOS, different election.

[cadoman]

9. that looks like well over 1500 miles; wishing for safe passage to them through Mexico

Are there any outreach groups to help them get here safely? I can't imagine walking over 1500 miles and then have to endure the system racism and hatred in this country. I hope they are not too disappointed.

[orangecrush]

16. Good post.

Watch "The Border", old movie with Jack Nicholson as a BPA.

Border Patrol Agents know better than anyone the suffering of these poor people.

Caught between the hammer of our border security and the anvil of the cartels.

Not all BPA are unsympathetic. The ones just doing a job.

[orangecrush]

10. I find it difficult to believe

They didn't do the same thing when Trump was in office.

[SunSeeker]

11. Of course they did. It's become an annual event that starts in winter.

They start their trip in winter to be able to survive the crossing of the Mexican desert, and the border itself.

[orangecrush]

15. Thank you.

[Chicago1980]

12. Every year they cause this headache.

Wait for the confederate talking points to begin.

[childfreebychoice]

14. Vp Harris said it best, " don't come." We have our own probs to fix. nt