The Newest Caravan Won't Succeed, but Aspiring Economic Migrants Still Expect to Be Welcomed by Biden
By Todd Bensman on January 14, 2021
As the January 15 departure date draws nigh for the latest U.S.-bound Honduran caravan, the chances that its economic migrants will reach the American border in time for President Joe Biden to be in office have fallen to the vicinity of zero.
With Trump still in office and pandemic-containment border closures still in place, the governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico have moved quickly to coordinate what promises to become the second forceful breakup of a caravan since the presidential election. Guatemala, for instance, proclaimed a "State of Prevention" and moved militarized police to its borders with Honduras Tuesday to block several hundred of the caravan's advance elements. To that country's north, Mexico's national guard has braced and reinforced itself should remnants of the coming breakup get through.
But no matter to Hondurans smart enough not to go this time while Trump remains in office and pandemic border closures are still intact, like 18-year-old Emerson Lopez near the city of San Pedro Sula, a launch point for this caravan and past ones. He believes a first one will get through and successfully deliver its participants inside the United States — once President Joe Biden is in office.
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